Robinsonades in Voyant, Works of One Syllable in HTRC
Voyant Dataset I chose a set of Robinsonades (aka “desert island stories”) from Robinson Crusoe itself (1719) to The Blue Lagoon (1908). I confined my selection...
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6 novels, 6 “insane” female characters
For the Voyant portion text mining exercise, I wanted to look at a sample of texts that range across a long time span. This was initially an idea prompted by gr...
Trends in 19th-Century Corporeality
Using Voyant, I selected Edgar Allen Poe’s five-volume collected works from Project Gutenberg and noted the word frequency throughout to think about temporality...
Experimental Criticism
In using the platforms chosen for today’s activity (Hathtrust and Voyant), I ran into a few, albeit non-insurmountable, problems. The largest problem I ha...
Word Trends, Popularity, and the Canon
Starting out, I did not have a clear idea of a set of texts I wanted to use text mining to explore. It was while investigating the Project Gutenberg website tha...
Canary in a Text Mine
Voyant: My Digital BF I used Voyant before and found it super helpful, but I really came to love it after the DSL text mining workshop last week. My corpus for ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Work with Words
For this week’s digital humanities project, since I created a database for illustrations of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Evangeline,” I chose to explore more o...
Distantly Reading Horror and Dewey
In Voyant, I looked at five horror novels/stories—Dracula, The Shunned House, volume I of Poe’s collected works, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, and The Damn...
Bodies of Corresponden(ts)ce
I’ve recently been interested in the connection between letters and the bodies of the people who write and receive them. In what ways are letters extensio...
Mining for Vikings and Outlaws
For this project, I chose to look at data mined from a small set of Old Norse sagas (both modern retellings and medieval text translations) and from a set of 30...
