Reductive Reading

“A masterful integration of digital humanistic approaches and more traditional close-reading methods . . . compelling, persuasive.” — Victorian Studies for the 21st Century What is to be gained by reading George Eliot’s  Middlemarch  from an Excel spreadsheet, or the novels of Charles Dickens through a few hundred dialogue tags—those he said/she saids that bring his characters to life? Sarah Danielle Allison’s  Reductive Reading  argues that the greatest gift t