Nineteenth-century systems of circulation, reprinting, and remediation

Ryan Cordell will draw on the Viral Texts project (viraltexts.org) at Northeastern University to demonstrate how computational methods such as text mining, mapping, and network analysis can illuminate nineteenth-century systems of circulation, reprinting, and remediation systemically and at scale. Cordell will demonstrate how this large-scale analysis—and the new corpus of popular texts it has unearthed—might shift our understanding of everyday reading, editing, and writing practices during the period, leading to a alternative notion of communal rather than individual authorship. Cordell will also show how these texts might, when considered at scale, allow us to expose lines of influence among nineteenth-century publications, leading to a more robust conception of the systems that underlay print culture in the period.