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• Data on the historical significance of textual distances 

  Underwood, Ted (2018)

  A zipped folder of files keyed to HathiTrust volume IDs, each representing a volume of English-language fiction. The files contain word counts used in Ted Underwood, "The Historical Significance of Textual Distances," ...

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• Why Literary Time Is Measured in Minutes 

  Underwood, Ted (2018)

  Brief crystallizing moments have come to seem more distinctively literary than time measured in months or years. Where did we get that critical assumption? This essay traces it back to changes in the pacing of fiction ...

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• Replication Data for "A Measured Perspective" 

  Underwood, Ted (2018)

  Tab-separated files containing wordcounts from volumes of fiction. The names of the files are keyed to volume IDs in HathiTrust Digital Library. Data was prepared using code in the repository supporting "A Measured ...

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• Data for Chapter 4 of Distant Horizons 

  Underwood, Ted (2018)

  Data to support chapter 4 of the book _Distant Horizons._ This includes mostly lists of words associated with specific literary characters. The file 4a will unpack into a folder of ~80,000 separate .tsv files, one for each ...

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• Wordcount Data for Chapter 3 of Distant Horizons 

  Underwood, Ted (2018)

  Data to support calculations in chapter 3 of the book _Distant Horizons._ It includes word counts for volumes of poetry and fiction, used to study the boundary between reviewed and relatively obscure writing. For the ...

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