Rise of the Novel

Kakkar Traditional

Sun, 10 Dec 2017 23:58:48 +0000

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Title

Kakkar Traditional

Creator

Frances Burney

Date

Fall 2017

Contributor

Keton Kakkar

Traditional Description Item Type Metadata

Text

I viii, 247p; II 262p.

Duodecimo

Vol. I. A1r half title, A1v title, A2r-v dedication, A3r-v preface, B1r-M6v text, M7r-M8r books printed for W. Lowndes

Vol. II. A1r half title, A1v title, B1r-N2r text, N2v books printed for W. Lowndes

Kakkar Thumbnail

Sun, 10 Dec 2017 23:05:40 +0000

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Title

Kakkar Thumbnail

Creator

Frances Burney

Date

Fall 2017

Contributor

Keton Kakkar

Holtzman Thumbnail

Sat, 09 Dec 2017 16:10:09 +0000

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Creator

Holtzman

Parker Thumbnail

Sat, 09 Dec 2017 15:07:23 +0000

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Title

Parker Thumbnail

Date

Fall 2018

Contributor

Matt Parker

Parker Commentary

Sat, 09 Dec 2017 14:45:24 +0000

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Title

Parker Commentary

Creator

Anonymous

Date

Fall 2017

Contributor

Matthew Parker

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Text

For my experimental bibliography, I decided to do computational text analysis of my novel. I started out by researching the methods and libraries to use for this, decided to use the NLTK and Gensim to perform latent Dirichlet allocation after researching different methods for textual analysis, and then coded a functional model using a small toy corpus and sample query text. The model produces the topic from the corpus most closely associated with a query text. Problems I encountered doing this were as follows: 1) To do computational text analysis, I needed a plaintext copy of my novel, and none currently existed. This major issue was somewhat mitigated by the existence of a plaintext copy of another novel by the same (anonymous) author. While the OCR isn't the best, I was able to obtain a relatively similar plaintext sample from Google books which I used in place of the original novel. Because of the computational complexity of the operations involved, the operation over the corpus is still in progress. Code can be found here.

Text Excerpt

Modern NLP libraries were used to analyze historical works to identify trends in a given text compared to a large corpus

Parker Experimental

Sat, 09 Dec 2017 14:42:28 +0000

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Title

Parker Experimental

Creator

Anonymous

Date

Fall 2017

Contributor

Matthew Parker

Experimental Description Item Type Metadata

Text

Topic distribution for "Masquerades, or What you Will" over the canon corpus: 0.019*"time" + 0.012*"room" + 0.011*"man" + 0.009*"moment" + 0.009*"house" + 0.008*"hand" + 0.008*"life" + 0.008*"company" + 0.008*"letter" + 0.007*"morning"
Topic distribution for "Twelfth Night, or what you will" over a Shakespeare Corpus: 0.022*"thou" + 0.015*"man" + 0.013*"thee" + 0.013*"lord" + 0.011*"hath" + 0.008*"heart" + 0.008*"time" + 0.007*"sir" + 0.007*"love" + 0.006*"life"

Common elements: "Time"

Code can be found here.

Parker Traditional

Sat, 09 Dec 2017 14:37:23 +0000

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Title

Parker Traditional

Creator

Anonymous

Date

Fall 2017

Contributor

Matthew Parker

Traditional Description Item Type Metadata

Text

Masquerades, or What You Will. The author of Eliza Warwick. Dublin, 1781. 273 pp. vol. Volume 1 of 2.

Pagination: v.1 273pp; v.2 309pp;

Format: Duodecimo.

contents: v.1 a1r: front matter, a1v: title, b1r: half-title and text, b1v-n5r: text v.2 a1r: front matter, a1v: title, b1r: half-title and text: b1v-o10r: text

Notes: Sourced from the British Library edition, accessed through the Eighteenth Century Collections online with Gale document number CW3312000553. The last page of the first edition marks the end of volume 1, and summarizes letters that were cut in order to abridge the series.

Collection Thumbnail

Sat, 09 Dec 2017 13:56:28 +0000

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Collection Thumbnail

Miller Collection Thumbnail

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 09:46:25 +0000

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Title

Miller Collection Thumbnail

Creator

Murat, Henriette Julie de Castelnau, comtesse de

Date

Fall 2017

Contributor

Elisabeth Miller

Miller Commentary

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 09:35:11 +0000

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Title

Miller Commentary

Creator

Murat, Henriette Julie de Castelnau, comtesse de

Date

Fall 2017

Contributor

Elisabeth Miller

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Text

Through this project, I wanted to capture the essence of the novel in a way that the traditional bibliography can not. I thought that a great way to do this would be to somehow give readers a taste of the language and feel of the literal text. To do this, I compiled a list of the ten most frequently used words in the novel, as well as picked three lines from the novel, one from the beginning, middle, and end. I then created a stop motion video, making it appear as though the words themselves were coming out of the book. Through this animation I "brought the book to life" in order to give readers a better sense of the novel that can not be obtained from the fact-based traditional bibliography.

Text Excerpt

This stop motion video features ten of the most frequently used words in the novel Memoirs of the Countess D'Anois, and three lines from various parts of the novel, in order to give readers a sense of the language of the novel, as well as animate or bring the novel to life in a way that the traditional bibliography is unable to do.

Kakkar Experimental

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 03:59:43 +0000

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Title

Kakkar Experimental

Subject

Evelina

Description

view attached README.txt

Creator

Frances Burney

Date

Fall 2017

Contributor

Keton Kakkar

Format

python file (.py) with script
text file (.txt) with cleaned up version of Evelina
markdown file with README

Experimental Description Item Type Metadata

Text

View this Github repository

Child Collection Thumbnail

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 03:24:57 +0000

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Title

Child Collection Thumbnail

Creator

Sir Herbert Croft

Date

Fall 2017

Contributor

Talbot Child

Child Commentary

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 02:53:09 +0000

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Title

Child Commentary

Creator

Sir Herbert Croft

Date

Fall 2017

Contributor

Talbot Child

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Text

"Love and Madness" is based upon the murder of one of the mistresses of Lord Sandwich in 1779. Furthermore, the extended title states that the characters in the novel are actually real people who are so famous and well known that the book uses different names for them to protect their privacy and reputation.

My experimental bibliography is supposed to represent those two pieces of background information in the context of the different meanings of "love" and "madness." To do this, I paired together several images of famous characters or people whose reputations capture "love" and "madness" to some degree. Beneath each image was a random name, capturing the idea that those famous people had their names changed in the novel.

The first set of images is of Cupid and the Mad Hatter who are both icons of love and madness, respectively. The fact that the names and images don't match is supposed to literally capture the novel changing the names of the characters. These characters are very positive and seemingly care-free, capturing the softest, most childish meanings of "love" and "madness."

The second set captures a more adolescent view of "love" and "madness." As with the first set, these are well known characters, in this case Edward Cullen, the famous sparkling vampire who loves a human, and Emperor Palpatine, the crazy ruler of a galaxy far, far away. While these characters represent still youthful concepts of "love" and "madness," there is also a growing sense of maturity to both. Death, sadness, and pain are both very real things to these characters and the universes they exist in compared to Cupid or the Mad Hatter.

The third set is where the mature, darker background to the novel becomes more apparent. This set pairs Hugh Hefner with Charles Manson. These people represent a mature, almost taboo version of "love" and "madness." Gone is any sense of youthfulness; these characters capture the grittier parts of "love" and "madness." This sense of maturity and seriousness is meant to capture the themes of the novel's background (the scandal of a mistress to a lord being murdered).

The final set of images takes the seriousness and maturity of the third set and expands it to a much broader level. This set pairs Mother Teresa, an icon for the love of your fellow human, with George Wallace, one of the faces of the hatred and racism of the American Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. These two people represent the opposite end of the spectrum of meanings behind "love" and "madness" from the first set.

When taken in a series, these four sets capture the full range of meanings or versions of "love" and "madness." The increasing level of maturity and scandal to the sets brings in the scandalous origins of the novel, and the literal misnaming of characters acts as a literal representation of the novel protecting it's subjects' privacy and reputations.

Text Excerpt

This experimental bibliography tries to display how the novel's title capture's the broad range of meaning behind "love" and "madness" by using contemporary cultural icons and people. This includes referencing several bits of background information to the novel.

Child Experimental

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 02:21:59 +0000

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Title

Child Experimental

Creator

Sir Herbert Croft

Date

Fall 2017

Contributor

Talbot Child

Experimental Description Item Type Metadata

Image Alt Text

Four sets of images with each image titled by a random name. The first set is of Cupid and the Mad Hatter. The second set is of Edward Cullen and Emperor Palpatine. The third set is of Hugh Hefner and Charles Manson. The final set is of Mother Teresa and George Wallace.

Physical Dimensions

The Image was originally a PDF, so the size would be that of a regular sheet of paper.

Child Traditional

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 01:09:45 +0000

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Title

Child Traditional

Creator

Sir Herbert Croft

Date

Fall 2017

Contributor

Talbot Child

Traditional Description Item Type Metadata

Text

Short Bibliographic Summary:
Croft, Herbert, Sir. Love and Madness. A Story too True in a Series of Letters Between Parties, whose names would perhaps be mentioned, were they less known, or less lamented. A New Edition. London: printed for G. Kearsly, at No. 46, near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street; and R. Faulder, in New Bond Street, 1780.

Pagination:
298 pp. (viii before page numbers begin)

Format:
Duodecimo

Contents:
A1r Illustration A1 r-v Title A2 r - A5 r-v Contents Section A6 r - A6r-v Preface B1 -CC5 r-v Text CC6 r To the Reader CC6 r-v Blank

Notes:
Sourced from the British Library and accessed through ECCO. Gale Document Number: CW114146925

Chen Thumbnail

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 00:27:39 +0000

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Title

Chen Thumbnail

Creator

Clara Reeve

Date

Fall 2018

Contributor

Meena Chen

Chen Experimental

Sun, 03 Dec 2017 23:40:30 +0000

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Title

Chen Experimental

Creator

Clara Reeve

Date

Fall 2017

Contributor

Meena Chen

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Original Format

Drawing, Medium: Ink on paper

Physical Dimensions

8 x 8 in.

Works Cited

Sun, 03 Dec 2017 23:36:59 +0000

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Title

Works Cited

Description

Rainwater, Roge. “Special Collections Acquires Letters from the Duchess De Crui.” Special Collections at TCU, 30 Apr. 2015, blogs.lib.tcu.edu/specialcollections/2015/04/30/special-collections-acquires-letters-from-the-duchess-de-crui/.

Walker, Mary Lady. “Letters from the Duchess De Crui and Others : on Subjects Moral and Entertaining, Wherein the Character of the Female Sex, with Their Rank, Importance, and Consequence, Is Stated and Their Relative Duties in Life Are Enforced / by a Lady., V.1.” Letters from the Duchess De Crui and Others : on Subjects Moral and Entertaining, Wherein the Character of the Female Sex, with Their Rank, Importance, and Consequence, Is Stated and Their Relative Duties in Life Are Enforced / by a Lady., V.1. - Text-Only - Full View | HathiTrust Digital Library, London :Printed for Robson ..., Walter ..., and Robinson ...,1777., babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ssd?id=njp.32101058836279.

Walker, Mary. Letters from the Duchess De Crui and Others, on Subjects Moral and Entertaining, Wherein the Character of the Female Sex, with Their Rank, ... Vol. 1-5, 1776. Eighteenth Century Collections Online [Gale]

Chen Traditional

Sun, 03 Dec 2017 23:30:07 +0000

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Title

Chen Traditional

Creator

Clara Reeve

Date

Fall 2017

Contributor

Meena Chen

Traditional Description Item Type Metadata

Text

Short Bibliographic Description: Reeve, Clara. The Champion of Virtue. A Gothic Story. By the editor of the Phoenix; A translation of Barclay’s Argenis. Printed for the author, by W. Keymer, Colchester, and sold by him; Sold also by G. Robinson, No. 25, Paternoster-Row, London.1777
Transcription: A | GOTHIC STORY. | By the Editor of the PHOENIX; | A TRANSLATION OF | BARCLAY’S ARGENIS. | Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima-veris. | HORACE. | PRINTED for the AUTHOR, | By W. KEYMER, Colchester, and sold by him; | Sold also by G. ROBINSON, No. 25, Pater- | noster-Row, London. | M.LCC.LXXVII.
Pagination: i-vii, 190 p
Format: Folio with 6s
Contents: A1r preface, Br-R5v text
Notes: Sourced from The British Library and accessed from ECCO; Gale document number CW3309672050; 190 pages, one volume; faded seal printed on p. 190, ending with FINIS.

Covitz Experimental

Sun, 03 Dec 2017 23:21:36 +0000

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Title

Covitz Experimental

Creator

Mary Walker

Date

Fall 2017

Contributor

Sydney Covitz

Experimental Description Item Type Metadata

Text

"Letters from the Duchess de Crui and Others, on Subjects Moral and Entertaining, Wherein the Character of the Female Sex, with Their Rank, Importance, and Consequence, Is Stated, and Their Relative Duties in Life Are Enforced," commonly referred to as "Letters to the Duchess de Crui" or simply "Letters," is an epistolary novel originally published in five volumes. It was first published anonymously in 1776 in England. The second and third editions were published under Mary Walker's name in 1777 in England and 1779 in Dublin respectively. The novel was also translated into German in 1776 and French in 1782. My experimental bibliography incorporates

For my experimental bibliography, I chose to incorporate information about where, when, and how the novel was published as well as its intra and extradiagetic form. The pictures of letters and postal services items represent the epistolary nature of the novel. Critics often refer to "Letters" as a novel of ideas rather than plot. I chose to represent these ideas, or observations on human life bound inside of Walker's novel through dates of the different editions' publications inside an outline of the country in which they were published. These representations of the novel are framed inside modern postal and letter-related images, just as Walker's original work is framed within the context of letters. The letter with the name and address information crossed out signifies the anonymous publication of the first edition of Walker's work. I also chose to include two other representations of the novel inside the boarder. The first is a picture of the five original, anonymously published volumes of the 1776 edition of Walker's work. The second is a picture of the cover of The Critical Review, a British literary publication that ran from 1756 to 1817. In this publication, an anonymous reviewed Walker's work in the same edition it reviewed Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

I chose to present my experimental bibliography as a series of re-arranged, printed out, black and white images of images in order to represent the fact that I never had Walker's work in front of me. In the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) database, we can access digital facsimiles of the novel but, we will never see the real thing. According to my research, Walker's original work was a beautiful publication bound completely in leather with a ribbed spine, brown calf, red spine label, guilt tiles, and leaf-like gold patterns gracing the cover. These are all details we will never see unless we find a copy of the original work, and although we can create a traditional bibliography with the images and information found on the ECCO, there are some things we cannot truly appreciate and come to know without holding the real thing in our hands.