Abstract

The integration of Digital Humanities (DH) into literary studies has radically transformed how literature is read, analyzed, taught, and understood. This paper explores the convergence between traditional literary criticism and digital tools such as text mining, data visualization, digital archives, and algorithmic analysis. By examining how digital methods are applied to literary texts—ranging from canonical works to contemporary fiction—the study demonstrates how DH can enrich interpretation, democratize access to literature, and challenge long-standing paradigms of authorship and narrative structure. Through selected case studies, including large-scale corpus analysis of Victorian novels and digital reconstructions of early modern texts, the paper analyzes the strengths and limitations of DH methodologies in literary research. It also critically evaluates how the digital shift affects the role of the reader, the concept of the literary canon, and the politics of inclusion and exclusion in textual scholarship. While Digital Humanities offer powerful new modes of inquiry, this paper argues that the field must remain critically selfreflective. Embracing digital tools should not lead to the erasure of critical theory, close reading, or cultural context. Instead, the goal is to integrate digital and humanistic methods in ways that illuminate both the text and the technologies used to interpret it. In doing so, the study positions DH not as a replacement for literary studies but as a vital and evolving extension of it.