Digital and Data Humanities Summer Fellowships Cohort Archive

Residence in London, a Cartographic Journey: Mapping William Wordsworth’s Conspicuous Consumption in The Prelude

Mapping Wordsworth's Conspicuous Consumption traces the walking route of Wordsworth's “Residence in London” in Book Seven of his autobiographical poem The Prelude, linking the cultural sites mentioned with images and text related to those sites on a historical map contemporaneous with three different moments: 1794-1797, 1805, and 1850. Built within Neatline, a dynamic interactive platform for telling spatial stories in time, the project is designed as an on-going project with the intention that scholars and students can not only trace the spatial stories of the literature under consideration and experience the impact of key cultural spaces, but also contribute additional spatial stories from other writers from the period and beyond.