Reading Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti

Edited by John HolboGlassbead Books A Valve Book Event Information and Pricing 9978-1-60235-205-6 (paperback, $18); 978-1-60235-206-3 (PDF, free download) © 2011 by Parlor Press and respective authors, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. 256 pages. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details.   About This Book Franco Moretti’s Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History is one of the most provocative recent works of literary history. The present volume collects generalist and specialist, academic and nonacademic responses by statisticians, philosophers, historians, literary scholars and others. And Moretti’s responses to these responses. Originally written as contributions to an online book event hosted at The Valve (www.thevalve.org), and edited for this volume, these essays explore, extend and criticize many aspects of Franco Moretti’s work. They will be of interest to anyone int