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Author: Erik Fredner

Typicality in the U.S. Novel

The talk below was originally scheduled to be given as a lightning talk at DH2020. We have adapted it here for the new virtual conference. You can follow along with our slides here. For a discipline committed to rejecting reductionism,

Erik Fredner July 18, 2020July 18, 2020 projects, typicality Read more

Finding needles in 34 million haystacks

We are working on a new collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution about the histories of fame and celebrity in the United States. To ground ourselves in public discourse surrounding these topics, we began by analyzing ProQuest’s Historical Newspapers corpus. Working

Erik Fredner November 9, 2019 celebrity, collaboration, technical_details Read more

How many novels have been published in English? (An Attempt)

Not for the first time, I find myself wanting to know how big the field of the novel is. Granted, finding the precise number of novels published in English is impossible. And even if we had an exact figure, the

Erik Fredner March 14, 2017 experiments Read more
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