I came across this very, very interesting article and think some of the counter-arguments in the comments section are well written. Adding it here for a permanent record.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/literally-psyched/2012/08/10/humanities-arent-a-science-stop-treating-them-like-one/
A counter-argumentative article
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/data-mining-classics-makes-beautiful-science-954577
The original article that sparked off this debate can be found here
http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/programme/abstracts/computing-and-visualizing-the-19th-century-literary-genome/
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