Text Mining the Novel
We have been awarded a major Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for $1.8 million towards the quantitative study of the novel. “Text Mining the Novel:...
View ArticleNovelTM
This partnership brings together 21 researchers and partners from academic and non-academic institutions in order to produce the first large-scale, cross-cultural study of the novel according to...
View ArticleEmotion Networks in the Novel
For my ongoing project on the history of emotions in the novel, I thought I’d post a first pass of emotion networks that appear in the Romantic Novel versus the Postwar Novel. The networks are based on...
View ArticleThe Eighteenth-Century Family
This animation represents the emotional network of the family in the eighteenth-century novel. It measures the co-occurrence of emotions and family members within sentences in a sample of eighty...
View ArticleValidation and Subjective Computing
Like many others I have been following the debate between Matthew Jockers and Annie Swafford regarding the new syuzhet R package created by Jockers, which has been given a very nice storified version...
View ArticleThe New Young Adult Fiction. More Human, More Me.
What difference does an editor make? This was the question posed by a recent profile of the highly successful editor of young adult fiction, Julie Strauss-Gabel, who manages the imprint Dutton...
View ArticlePrizewinners versus Bestsellers. Timeless Reads or the Spotlight of Fame
This post is the first in a series by this year’s .txtLAB interns. It is authored by Eva Portelance. Building Corpuses The first step in our search for answers required that we build solid corpuses for...
View ArticleUpward Looking and Forward Thinking? The Stance of the Modern Novel
What would it mean for the novel to take a stance? To position itself relative to the world? How would it do so and how might we understand this positioning? At the individual level, we can imagine how...
View ArticleLIWC for Literature: Releasing Data on 25,000 Documents
Increasing emphasis is being placed in the humanities on sharing data. Projects like the Open Syllabus Project, for example, have made a tremendous effort in discovering, collecting, and cleaning large...
View ArticleAre characters really all that special?
Browsing through the history of literature, you are likely to find authors poking fun at their characters for just being words on the page. As George Eliot writes in Middlemarch, “‘He has got no good...
View ArticleThe End of an Era. NovelTM celebrates its final workshop, “Ends”
The NovelTM partnership is going into it’s 6th and final year. It has been a tremendous experience. As a team we’ve produced more than a hundred articles, trained over 200 students, held annual...
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