DigitalLiteraryStylis.cs

AnneBANDRY-SCUBBI

Women’sNovels1750s-1830sandtheCompanyTheyKeep:

AComputa?onalStylis?cApproach

‘whatcorpusstylis?cscandobeyondtheobviousprovisionofquan.ta.vedata,ishelpwiththeanalysisofanindividualtextbyprovidingvariousop.onsforthecomparisonofonetextwithgroupsofothertextstoiden?fytendencies,intertextualrela?onships,orreflec?onsofsocialandculturalcontexts’.

MichaelaMahlberg‘CorpusStylis.cs:BridgingtheGapbetweenLinguis.cand

LiteraryStudies’,inText,DiscourseandCorpora:TheoryandAnalysis,byMichaelHoey,MichaelaMahlberg,MichaelStubbs,

WolfgangTeubert(London:Con.nuum,2007),p.221.

ChawtonNovelsonline•  34“domes?cdramaswhereheroinesblush,swoon,orfaceunbearablesocialostracismbecauseofminorbreachesofdecorum”

TheEnglishNovel1770-1829,PeterGarside,JamesRavenandRainerSchöwerlingeds(OUP,2000),Ip.28

•  “the‘feminine’novel—domes.ccomedy,centringonaheroine,inwhichthecri.calac.onisaninwardprogresstowardsjudgment”

MarilynButler,AustenandtheWarofIdeasp.145

à CHAWTN34: 3.9millionwords 38%pre1800,62%post1800

•  CHAWTN34⊂W42

•  Haywood,Burney,Edgeworth,Austen,Ferrier

à W42: 5.8millionwords 41%pre1800,51%post1800

à CHAWTN34:3.9millionwords 38%pre1800,62%post1800

•  CHAWTN34⊂W421769-1830 1752-1834

•  CTROL34:5.4millionwords–  1748-1834– 41%pre1800– 44%male–  CliveProbyn’sEnglishFic7onofthe18thCentury,1700-1789andGaryKelly’s

EnglishFic7onoftheRoman7cPeriod1789-1830(Longman1987,1990)–  hRp://www.gutenberg.org/

CTROL34W42hhp://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alg%C3%A8bre_des_par.es_d%27un_ensemble#mediaviewer/File:Set_subsetAofB.svg

CHAWTN34

W42

CTROL34

W42

Lexicalconnec?onontypesinW42(Hyperbase)Canonicalnovelsinblack,Minervanovelsinblue,

non-MinervaChawtonnovelsinred

Lexicalconnec?onontokensinW42(Hyperbase)Canonicalnovelsinblack,Minervanovelsinblue,

non-MinervaChawtonnovelsinred

Lexicalconnec?onontypesinW42(Hyperbase)Canonicalnovelsinblack,Minervanovelsinblue,

non-MinervaChawtonnovelsinred

Lexicalconnec?onontokensinW42(Hyperbase)Canonicalnovelsinblack,Minervanovelsinblue,

non-MinervaChawtonnovelsinred

Rachel,JaneHunter(1817):A‘highlyoriginal’taletoldinunoriginalterms

•  Rachel,ATale,JaneHunter,1817

W42+Display:Lexicalconnec.ontypes

W42+Display:Lexicalconnec.ontokens

Whatisstyle?

•  Oh,well….

•  Contras.vestylis.cs– XVII-XVIII:Sterne&Swip,fic.on&sermons

–  JADT2010:Smolleh’sRoderickRandom

•  ABO:Interac7veJournalforWomenintheArts,1640-1830:ChawtonNovelsOnline,Women’sWri.ng1751-1834andComputer-AidedTextualAnalysishhp://scholarcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol5/iss2/1/

•  GeorgianCi7es:18th-centuryCi7esTheUseofToponymsinPrideandPrejudicehhp://www.18thc-ci.es.paris-sorbonne.fr/Space-and-Emo.ons

bandry@unistra.fr