In this article we make a case for a synchronic and contextualizing perspective on the scaling of literary data, one which qualifies and expands the data points in terms of depth, or thickness, through the help of metadata on the social and historical conditions of the texts. Our case study is an investigation of the rise and impact of realism in a corpus of more than 800 Danish and Norwegian novels from 1870 to 1899 with three, interlocking critical and methodological aims. We use textual features to model realism in a large corpus of Danish‐language novels. We compare the features driving that model to the ones that were important to the historical and critical development of realism as a literary project. And we use the results of our model to study the interplay between realism and social history. Our findings suggest that realism was more prominent and more widely distributed in Danish‐language novels of the late nineteenth century than the critical tradition has usually acknowledged. Women appear to have written realist fiction not only at rates similar to men, but at times and with features that are difficult to distinguish from their male counterparts. The article relies on—and insists on further—dialogue between digital and analog approaches to the exploration of cultural data.
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I 1700-tallet var Ludvig Holberg del af den europaeiske kanon. Omkring år 1900 var han "naeppe kendt af navn udenfor Norden", som kritikeren Georg Brandes konstaterede (i essayet "Weltliteratur", 1899). I dag lever Holbergs tekster, quaeller måske: trods -status af pensum-og pligtstof, udelukkende videre i Danmark og Norge. Holberg står dog tilbage som en reduceret størrelse i sine to hjemlande, hvor man naesten kun kender ham for komedierne. Men på forbilledlig vis har et stort norsk-danske forskningssamarbejde -der i løbet af 2010'erne har resulteret i en ny, komplet digital udgave af Holbergs tekster (www.holbergsskrifter.dk), inkl. moderniserede versioner, samt flere ph.d.-afhandlinger og forskningsantologier -sørget for at praesentere ham i mere fuld figur, således at historikeren, juristen, latinisten etc. Holberg er blevet dokumenteret og diskuteret.Med sin engelsksprogede monografi Ludvig Holberg -a Danish Playwright on the European Stage: Masquerade, Comedy, Satire går teaterhistorikeren Bent Holm en anden vej, ind til kernen, om man vil, ved at zoome ind på en håndfuld komedier, herunder klassikere som Jeppe på Bierget og Erasmus Montanus. Det handler således for Holm snarere om at imødegå den tiltagende afinternationalisering, som komedieteksterne har undergået de sidste par hundrede år, end den parallelle reduktion af Holberg til 'blot' komediedigter. Resultatet, hvor teksternes vaev af
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