DAN COHEN6 MARCH 2012

INSTITUTE OF HISTORICALRESEARCH, LONDON

FINDING MEANING IN AMILLION VICTORIAN BOOKS

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inbound linksoutbound links

words in the URLtitle of the web page

top-level domain (e.g., .edu)age of second-level domain (e.g., dancohen.org)

date page was createddate page was last updated

how frequently a page is updatedrelated pages on the same domain

keywords in meta tagsfont size of keywords (h1, h2, etc.)

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1,681,161 MILLION BOOKS

titleauthor

contributorpublication year

textlanguage

material formbibliographic level

page countpublisher

library holdings

salesbirth year of authordeath year of author

fiction typefull titleheight

LC subject headingother subject headingsplace of publication

product formpublication country

THE VICTORIAN CRISIS OF FAITH

COMPARISONS USING BOOKWORM

Age of authors mentioning religious topics

Birth year of authors using the word "God"

The disciplinary split on “biblical”

The disciplinary split on “biblical”

Use of “happiness,” USA vs UK

BEYOND THE UNIGRAM

“_________ marriage”

Interesting bigrams with “marriage” as the second wordwith frequencies that change significantly over the 19th c.

clandestineforbiddenforeignfruitlessgoodhappyhasty

irregularlovelessmixed

1790s

sinful to harbour evil thoughts

sinful to the obedience of God

sinful to attend the playhouse

sinful to do it from any other motive but conviction

1890s

sinful to be superstitiously credulous

sinful to drink intoxicating liquors

sinful to allow your grief to hurt you

sinful to treat beasts with cruelty

LOOKING AHEAD

DAN COHEN6 MARCH 2012

INSTITUTE OF HISTORICALRESEARCH, LONDON

FINDING MEANING IN AMILLION VICTORIAN BOOKS

WEB: DANCOHEN.ORGTWITTER: @DANCOHEN