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Weak Negative Correlation between the Present Day Popularity and the Mean Emotional Valence of Late Victorian Novels

VELESKI, Stefan

Základní údaje

Originální název

Weak Negative Correlation between the Present Day Popularity and the Mean Emotional Valence of Late Victorian Novels

Autoři

VELESKI, Stefan

Vydání

2723. vyd. Amsterdam, Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Humanities Research, od s. 32-43, 12 s. 2020

Nakladatel

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Stať ve sborníku

Stát vydavatele

Nizozemské království

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

elektronická verze "online"

Odkazy

URL

Organizace

Filozofická fakulta – Masarykova univerzita – Repozitář

ISSN

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85095976761

Klíčová slova anglicky

cultural evolution; sentiment analysis; Victorian novels; cultural longevity; bestsellers; canon

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1204/2019, interní kód Repo.
Změněno: 13. 5. 2021 02:00, RNDr. Daniel Jakubík

Anotace

V originále

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.
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