Significant themes in 19th-century literature

•We model hundreds of themes in a corpus of some 3200 19th-century novels.•We analyze the statistical significance of these themes, heeding gender especially.•We consider impact of external factors on use of themes and words within themes.•We offer a robust method of exploring literary themes at sca...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Poetics (Amsterdam) 2013-12, Vol.41 (6), p.750-769
Hauptverfasser:	Jockers, Matthew L., Mimno, David
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	19th-Century literature Choices Machine learning Sex Topic modeling United Kingdom
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