Franco Moretti teaches literature at Stanford, where he also directs the Literary Lab. His most recent books are Distant Reading and The Bourgeois, both published in 2013. He writes often for New Left Review.
Franco Moretti
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The first thing that happens, when a literary historian starts using computers to think about literature, is that the object of study changes. Not just the tool; the object itself. “The objects studied by contemporary historians” have this peculiarity, Krzysztof Pomian observed some time ago, that “no one has ever seen them, and no one […]
