Editors’ Choice: The Outward Turn. Geocoding the Expansion of Fictional Space in Russian 19th-Century Literature

Digital Humanities Now 2026-01-14

Summary:

Editors’ Summary: This paper uses geocoding to study 19th century Russian literature. The authors extracted location data using NER to quantitatively measure the literary “transition from romanticism to realism.” This paper is a helpful reference for readers who want to combine quantitative methods with historical periodization.  See full post.

Link:

https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2026/01/the-outward-turn-geocoding-the-expansion-of-fictional-space-in-russian-19th-century-literature-journal-of-computational-literary-studies/

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Authors:

Daniil Skorinkin & Boris Orekhov

Date tagged:

01/14/2026, 23:04

Date published:

01/14/2026, 12:30