Jonathan Reeve: Computational Literary Analysis · Oct 23, 2019
Adventures in Reproducing 19th Century Digital Humanities Projects
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In 1887, Thomas Mendenhall , a self-taught physicist, published an article in Science called “The Characteristic Curve of Composition,” in which he studies mathematical properties of sentences written by fiction writers of the day. As an early work of quantitative literary analysis which preexisted the field of digital humanities by many decades, I like to think of it as nonetheless a “digital”…
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