Crossing Over: Gendered Reading Formations at the Muncie Public Library, 1891-1902

Tatlock, Lynne; Erlin, Matt; Knox, Douglas; Pentecost, Stephen

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“…For productive examples in practice, there are dozens in literary studies proper and thousands in the broader field of computational social science. See especially Bode (2018), Tatlock et al (2018), and Underwood et al (2018).…”

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Deep distant reading: The rise of realism in Scandinavian literature as a case study

Bjerring-Hansen

Wilkens

2023

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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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Deep distant reading: The rise of realism in Scandinavian literature as a case study

Bjerring-Hansen

Wilkens

2023

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“… 8 8 For an introduction to LIWC, see https://www.liwc.app. For uses of the software in computational text analysis, see Koolen and van Cranenburgh (2017), Piper (2018), Tatlock, Erlin, Pentecost and Knox (2018). …”

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A woman's tradition? Quantifying gender difference in the Child ballads

Duggan

2023

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While the major ballad‐collecting efforts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were largely carried out by men, the academic discourse surrounding ballads gendered traditional balladry—orally transmitted narrative poetry—as a woman's tradition. Subsequent ballad scholarship of the twentieth century perpetuated the antiquarian notion of a specifically female ballad tradition, and yet it has remained unclear whether and how this women's tradition should be considered distinct from, for example, a male ballad tradition. This study suggests that a quantitative approach can be used to investigate the question of difference in women's and men's ballad repertoires in the period spanning the mid‐eighteenth century to the close of the nineteenth. Employing Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC) software to examine the definitive ballad anthology—the Child collection—this study finds that the notion of a woman's tradition goes beyond stereotypical notions of repertoires gendered by genre; women's ballads are instead found to be characterised by distinctive linguistic patterns that convey a strong focus on female subjectivity.

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Understanding the Narrative Functions of Visualization in Digital Humanities Publications: A Case Study of the Journal of Cultural Analytics

2021

Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue

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Crossing Over: Gendered Reading Formations at the Muncie Public Library, 1891-1902

Cited by 3 publications

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Deep distant reading: The rise of realism in Scandinavian literature as a case study

Deep distant reading: The rise of realism in Scandinavian literature as a case study

A woman's tradition? Quantifying gender difference in the Child ballads

Understanding the Narrative Functions of Visualization in Digital Humanities Publications: A Case Study of the Journal of Cultural Analytics

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