Here is a blog post describing a DH project that does a postcolonial "distant reading" of 18th and 19th century Anglophone texts. Its fairly simple aim was to discover whether in fact mention of India increased in a large body of Anglophone literature as Britain's involvement with India grew.
I want to emphasize that this project was undertaken by an undergraduate English major at a liberal arts college. She used the program MALLET to perform topic modeling on a corpus of texts, as a test case for a larger project that would perform this work on a body of 10,000 texts drawn from HathiTrust, a widely used digital library. In this case, the same student brought both humanities and computer skills to the project; in another case, a similar project might have collaboratively brought together a humanities student or scholar with a computing student or scholar.
This is one example of an introductory digital humanities project that uses computing to work with literary texts in order to generate knowledge within the humanities.
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