English Novels of the Long Eighteenth Century

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Literary comparisons: Social dynamics and the eighteenth-century British novel

The British novel was an important factor in the public negotiation of cultural change during the eighteenth century. In particular, explicit and implicit literary comparisons between characters on the levels of both content and narrative form played an important role by evoking, commenting on, and evaluating contemporary social practices of comparing. Thus, the novel did not merely document social change, but creatively explored aspects and criteria of comparing within British society – an exploration that fed back into social discourse. The project is investigating this intersection of literary and social practices of comparing against the backdrop of historical processes of modernisation in the 18th century.

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Introduction

This corpus consists of novels published during the Long Eighteenth Century in England. Most of them can be dated to the period between 1760 and 1820. Since the data is representing works from British literature, all authors are either from Great Britain or Ireland. The selected novels are available in .txt format for reading and further analysis.

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Due to the processing of the novels and offering the result, themes, topics and issues can now easily be analysed by the unified spelling with the help of any computerised programmes such as Voyant and AntConc.

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Field	Value
Publisher	B05 \| The English Novel as Laboratory
Modified	2020-10-27
Release Date	2020-04-02
Identifier	ce33bc89-1ff0-4af4-b732-7377f7866c84
License	License Not Specified
Public Access Level	Public

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