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Reading Regionally, 1865-1915 Alex Leslie, Ph.D. student, department of English Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Digital Humanities Lab, Alexander Library (4th floor) Join us for a workshop in which Alex Leslie, a 2016-17 DH seed grant recipient, will present his work in progress on a quantitative analysis of literary regionalism in the postbellum United States. Light refreshments will be served. Abstract: For the past two decades, scholarship on postbellum America has argued that the prominence of literary regionalism – a genre of fiction focused on representing local distinctiveness – was in fact the product of national publishing networks and transnational aesthetic trends. WhatRead More →