1832 Journal of Cultural Analytics 2371-4549 Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University Website: Journal of Cultural Analytics 11070 10.22148/16.014 Article Topic Modeling, Epistemology, and the English and German Novel Erlin Matt 1 5 2017 2017 2 2 NovelTM Special Issue on Genre 11070 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

According to Rita Felski, context is overrated. Even in the sophisticated variants of contextualization typical of the New Historicism, she explains, scholars’ obsession with historical context as the ultimate source of textual meaning disregards the capacity of literature to resonate across time and space.

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