In my contribution, I depart from the report on the first conference of Nordic Digital Humanities held in Oslo on March 15-17 2016, which gives me an opportunity for theorico-methodological reflections concerning the use of Digital Humanities in approaching the literary history. I begin with a brief note on the present situation of the discipline of DH, and, following the arguments brought up during the conference, reflect on its existence, development and problems. Then I concentrate on the presentation of the HERA funded Joint Research Project Travelling TexTs 1790–1914: Transnational Reception of Women’s Writing at the Fringes of Europe (Finland, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, The Netherlands) and the importance of the digital tool for the project work. I tackle the concept of distant and close reading and comment briefly on the possibilities which such projects offer in terms of new ways of writing and teaching (Finnish) literary history.