Locating the beautiful, picturesque, sublime and majestic: spatially analysing the application of aesthetic terminology in descriptions of the English Lake District
Locating the beautiful, picturesque, sublime and majestic: spatially analysing the application of aesthetic terminology in descriptions of the English Lake District
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10.1016/j.jhg.2017.01.006
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2017-04-01
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Taylor, Joanna E.
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Donaldson, Christopher;Gregory, Ian N.;Taylor, Joanna E.
本文介绍并实施了一种跨学科的方法来检查历史文本语料库。它提出了一个案例研究，结合了语料库分析、自动地理解析和地理信息系统 (GIS)，以调查与历史上在描述英国湖区时使用的一些关键美学术语相关的地理：英格兰西北部一个具有文化声誉的湖泊和山脉地区。本次调查的基础是包含超过 150 万字的关于湖区的旅行写作和地形文献语料库。该语料库主要由十八世纪和十九世纪的作品组成。在研究这个语料库的过程中，我们识别并分析了十八世纪美学理论与同时代和后来对湖泊地区的描述中美丽、风景如画、崇高和雄伟等术语的使用之间的对应关系。我们的分析为这四个美学术语的历史使用提供了新的见解。此外，我们的研究结果揭示了旅游指南等临时出版物如何帮助巩固威廉·吉尔平和埃德蒙·伯克等经典思想家制定的美学原则和词汇的应用。在介绍这项研究时，我们展示了地理和基于语料库的混合方法（我们称之为地理文本分析）如何能够推进文学、美学和自然地理学之间联系的研究。 (C) 2017 年作者。由爱思唯尔有限公司出版
This article introduces and implements an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of historical text corpora. It presents a case study that combines corpus analysis, automated geoparsing and geographic information systems (GIS) to investigate the geographies associated with some of the key aesthetic terms historically used in writing about the English Lake District: a culturally prestigious region of lakes and mountains in northwest England. The basis of this investigation is a corpus of travel writing and topographical literature about the Lake District containing more than 1.5 million words. The corpus mainly consists of works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In investigating this corpus we identify and analyse a correspondence between eighteenth-century aesthetic theory and the use of the terms beautiful, picturesque, sublime and majestic in contemporaneous and later accounts of the Lakes region. Our analyses afford new insights into the historical use of these four aesthetic terms. Our findings, moreover, reveal how ephemeral publications, such as tourist guidebooks, helped to consolidate the application of the aesthetic principles and vocabulary formulated by canonical thinkers, including William Gilpin and Edmund Burke. In presenting this research, we demonstrate how a hybrid geographical and corpus-based methodology, which we call geographical text analysis, can advance the study of the connections between literature, aesthetics and physical geography. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.