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A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History

Katherine Bode
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During the 19th century, throughout the Anglophone world, most fiction was first published in periodicals. In Australia, newspapers were not only the main source of periodical fiction, but the main source of fiction in general. Because of their importance as fiction publishers, and because they provided Australian readers with access to stories from around the world—from Britain, America and Australia, as well as Austria, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, and beyond—Australian newspapers represent an important record of the transnational circulation and reception of fiction in this period.

Investigating almost 10,000 works of fiction in the world's largest collection of mass-digitized historical newspapers (the National Library of Australia's Trove database), A World of Fiction reconceptualizes how fiction traveled globally, and was received and understood locally, in the 19th century. Katherine Bode's innovative approach to the new digital collections that are transforming research in the humanities are a model of how digital tools can transform how we understand digital collections and interpret literatures in the past.

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  • Copyright
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  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Digital World
    • Chapter 1. Abstraction, Singularity, Textuality
    • Chapter 2. Back to the Future
    • Chapter 3. From World to Trove to Data
  • Part II. Fiction in the World
    • Chapter 4. Into the Unknown
    • Chapter 5. Fictional Systems
    • Chapter 6. “Man people woman life” / “Creek sheep cattle horses”
    • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
Open access funding generously provided by the Australian National University
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Published: 2018
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license
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  • 978-0-472-90083-1 (open access)
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  • History:Intellectual History
  • Literary Studies:19th Century Literature
  • Literary Studies:Editorial Theory

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Table mapping the fields in the National Library of Australia's Trove database to the fields in the curated database analysed in A World of Fiction

Digital appendix 1: Relationship of fields in Trove and the curated dataset

Table describing Australian authors and titles identified through analysis of the National Library of Australia's Trove database and not previously in the Australian bibliographical record

Digital appendix 2: Newly discovered Australian works and authors

Table identifying titles syndicated by Tillotson's Fiction Bureau and listed in the curated database

Digital appendix 3: Extended fiction syndicated by Tillotson's Fiction Bureau and published in nineteenth-century Australian newspapers

Table identifying the authors in the curated database that are associated by various sources with international syndication agents and agencies

Digital appendix 4: Authors associated with prominent syndication agencies and agents

Table listing titles reprinted across multiple provincial Australian newspapers in the nineteenth century and indicating the operations of syndication agents and agencies in the colonial market

Digital appendix 5: Fiction syndicates in provincial newspapers, 1877 to 1899

Table listing the keywords for the 100 topic model analysed in chapter six, excluding topics largely or entirely comprised of optical character recognition (OCR) errors

Digital appendix 6: 100-topic model keywords

Table showing the relationship between the titles in the curated dataset and those with at least three text files investigated via the topic model analysed in chapter six

Digital appendix 7: Parameters of 100-topic model, including justification for the representativeness of sampled text files

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Digital appendix 8.1: Stopword list for 100 topic model

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Digital appendix 8.2: Composition file for 100 topic model

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Digital appendix 8.3: Word counts file for 100 topic model

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Digital appendix 8.4: Keyword list for 100 topic model

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Digital appendix 8.5: Documents, words, topics output for 100 topic model

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Digital appendix 8.6: Text files analysed for topic model

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Digital appendix 9.1: Matrix of combined topics, OCR error topics removed

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Digital appendix 9.2: Code for executing decision trees in Matlab

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Digital appendix 9.3: Results of ten decision tree trials for gender with a maximum two splits

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Digital appendix 9.4: Results of ten decision tree trials for gender with a maximum four splits

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Digital appendix 9.5: Results of ten decision tree trials for gender with a maximum of six splits

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Digital appendix 9.6: Results of ten decision tree trials for nationality with a maximum two splits

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Digital appendix 9.7: Results of ten decision tree trials for nationality with a maximum four splits

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