2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Digital Humanities Analysis of Christianity in the 19th-Century British Fiction
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26580053
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Kumamoto University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | Digital Humanities / Effect Size / Topic Modelling / Corpus Stylistics / Christianiity |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The top-ranking keywords obtained trough the effect-size analyses of the 9 major novelists' study corpora in comparison with the reference corpus of the 291 novels by the 28 eminent 19th-century British authors were classified into 15 categories according to the connotation of each word. The effect size of the author's words in the Christian-morality group was higher in the order of G. Eliot, Gaskell, Austen, Gissing, C. Bronte, Hardy, and A. Bronte. Dickens and E. Bronte showed little difference from the reference corpus in their use of Christian-morality words. This result sheds light on the individual novelist's unique description of Christian morality which has "for a long time . . . received only impressionistic and subjective treatment" (David I. Homes). Its uniqueness should be confirmed could this outcome be validated by further close reading of their texts.
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| Free Research Field |
英文学
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