Tom McCarthy, Tintin and the Secret of Literature

Tintin is the guardian of that which makes literature possible. Or something.

Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, and Trees

Three ways of practicing Moretti's "distant reading" of literature, conducted via visual representations of quantitative data.

Franco Moretti, An Atlas of the European Novel: 1800-1900

Uses quantitative methods and lots of maps to explain changes and differences in the form and consumption of varieties of European literature.