VELESKI, Stefan. Weak Negative Correlation between the Present Day Popularity and the Mean Emotional Valence of Late Victorian Novels. Online. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Humanities Research. 2723rd ed. Amsterdam: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2020, p. 32-43. ISSN 1613-0073.
Other formats:   BibTeX LaTeX RIS
Basic information
Original name Weak Negative Correlation between the Present Day Popularity and the Mean Emotional Valence of Late Victorian Novels
Authors VELESKI, Stefan.
Edition 2723. vyd. Amsterdam, Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Humanities Research, p. 32-43, 12 pp. 2020.
Publisher CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Other information
Original language English
Type of outcome Proceedings paper
Country of publisher Netherlands
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form electronic version available online
WWW URL
Organization Filozofická fakulta – Repository – Repository
ISSN 1613-0073
Keywords in English cultural evolution; sentiment analysis; Victorian novels; cultural longevity; bestsellers; canon
Links MUNI/A/1204/2019, interní kód Repo.
Changed by Changed by: RNDr. Daniel Jakubík, učo 139797. Changed: 13/5/2021 02:00.
Abstract
Despite the recent upswing of computational research on Victorian novels, it has largely overlooked insight from cultural evolution and the cognitive sciences. This study aims to contribute to this incipient scholarship by testing the hypothesis that novels containing content with a lower mean emotionals valence are more likely to trigger recommendation-based transmission chains, and as a result tend to have greater cultural longevity. This study performs a correlation analysis between the mean sentiment and the contemporary popularity (using the number of user ratings from Goodreads) of a selection of late Victorian novels published in the United Kingdom between 1891 and 1901, taken from Project Gutenberg (n=846). Moreover, the study looks into the implications of this correlation for the differences between novels that were bestsellers at the time of publication and those that can be considered canonical today (that have recently had Broadview, Oxford University, or Penguin Press editions). The results show a weak negative correlation between the present day popularity and the mean emotional valence of the novels, which nevertheless holds true for both the bestselling and canonical novels. Moreover, canonical novels tend to have a lower mean emotional valence than the bestsellers.
Type Name Uploaded/Created by Uploaded/Created Rights
long44.pdf Licence Creative Commons  File version 1/4/2021

Properties

Name
long44.pdf
Address within IS
https://repozitar.cz/auth/repo/43308/1033686/
Address for the users outside IS
https://repozitar.cz/repo/43308/1033686/
Address within Manager
https://repozitar.cz/auth/repo/43308/1033686/?info
Address within Manager for the users outside IS
https://repozitar.cz/repo/43308/1033686/?info
Uploaded/Created
Thu 1/4/2021 01:41

Rights

Right to read
  • anyone on the Internet
Right to upload
 
Right to administer:
  • a concrete person Mgr. Lucie Vařechová, uco 106253
  • a concrete person RNDr. Daniel Jakubík, uco 139797
  • a concrete person Mgr. Jolana Surýnková, uco 220973
Attributes
 
Print
Add to clipboard Displayed: 18/6/2024 04:24