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Underwood, Ted (1995). "Productivism and the Vogue for 'Energy' in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain". Studies in Romanticism. 34 (1): 103–125. doi:10.2307/25601101. JSTOR   25601101. It's safe to conclude, then, that the first law of thermodynamics would not have had the impact it did if the cultural ground hadn't been prepared for it by romanticism. "Productivism" first became a prevalent doctrine in the late eighteenth century, and it did so in a way that left traces in language itself. Of these traces, the redefinition of "energy" and its promotion to the status of a social ideal was probably the most enduring.
  • Underwood, Ted (2005). The Work of the Sun: Literature, Science, and Political Economy, 1760–1860. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN   9781403965998. OCLC   56660049. 240 pages.
  • Underwood, Ted (2013). Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN   9780804784467. OCLC   830683628. 199 pages.
  • Underwood, Ted (2017). "A Genealogy of Distant Reading". Digital Humanities Quarterly . 11 (2).
  • Underwood, Ted (2018). "Why Literary Time is Measured in Minutes". ELH (English Literary History). 85 (2). Johns Hopkins University: 341–365. doi:10.1353/elh.2018.0013. hdl: 2142/100076 . S2CID   192215143.
  • Underwood, Ted (2019). Distant horizons : digital evidence and literary change. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN   9780226612669. OCLC   1050140816. 206 pages. Review Porter, J. D. (Fall 2021). "Review: On Not Already Knowing. Reviewed Work(s): Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change by Ted Underwood". Criticism. 63 (4). Wayne State University Press: 445–448. doi:10.13110/criticism.63.4.0445.

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    Numbers are becoming more useful in literary study for reasons that are theoretical rather than technical. It is not that computers got faster or disks got bigger but that we have recently graduated from measuring variables to framing models of literary concepts. Since a model defines a relationship between variables, a mode of inquiry founded on models can study relationships rather than isolated facts. Instead of starting with, say, the frequency of connective words, quantitative literary research now starts with social evidence about things that really interest readers of literature — like audience, genre, character, and gender. The literary meaning of those phenomena comes, in a familiar way, from historically grounded interpretive communities. Numbers enter the picture not as an objective foundation for meaning somewhere outside history but as a way to establish comparative relationships between different parts of the historical record.

    — Ted Underwood, "Preface", Distant horizons : digital evidence and literary change (2019), pages xi-xii.

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    1. 1 2 "UnderwoodVitaeAugust2017.pdf" (PDF). ischool.illinois.edu. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Sciences. August 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
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    3. ↑ "Ted Underwood". ischool.illinois.edu. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Sciences. 2025. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
    4. ↑ "Public Lecture 'The Role of the Humanities in an Information Age' by Ted Underwood, Visiting Scaliger Professor". universiteitleiden.nl. Leiden: Leiden University. 21 August 2025. Retrieved 17 April 2025.
    5. ↑ "Find items in libraries near you". search.worldcat.org. OCLC Inc. 2025. Retrieved 21 August 2025. Search for "Underwood, Ted".
    Ted Underwood
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    Occupation(s)Literary scholar, information scientist
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    EducationM.A. Philosophy Williams College 1989, PhD English Cornell University 1997 [1]
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