Introduction to the Attribution of Literature : The Re-Attribution of the British 18th and 19th Century Corpuses (Hardcover)

Introduction

1. A Brief History of the Unmasking of Ghostwriting

2. Experiments in Unmasking

3. Why This Method Is New

Part 1. The New Stylometric Attribution Method

Chapter 1. Anti-Assumptions as a Pre-Requisite for Computational Stylometry

Chapter 2. The Steps of the Recommended Stylometric Attribution Method

Chapter 3. Selecting a Suitable Corpus

Chapter 4. Preparing Texts for Testing

Chapter 5. Reasons for the Use of Free Accessible Software

Chapter 6. Discussion of the Data in the 18th and 19th Century Corpuses

6.1. Summary of the Quantitative Findings with a Review of Statistics Terminology

6.1.1. Correlation Matrixes and Visualizing Dual-Test Outputs

6.1.2. Firm versus Fluid Groups

6.2. Attribution Accuracy Verification by Comparing Stylometric Conclusions Against Bibliographic and Other Categories of Data

6.2.1. Printers, Booksellers and Publishers

6.2.1.1. Bookselling Mysteries of the 18th Century G-Group

6.2.1.2. Other Linguistic Group-to-Bookseller Clusters in the 18th Century

6.2.1.3. Linguistic Group-to-Bookseller Clusters in the 19th Century

6.2.2. The Theater Mono/Duopoly and the One to Two Ghost-Playwriters

6.2.3. Patterns in Byline Types

6.2.4. Group-Exclusive Word Patterns

6.2.5. Group-Exclusive Phrase Patterns

Chapter 7. A Method for the Quantitative Selection of the Most Likely Ghostwriter in a Linguistic-Group

Part 2. Experiments to Explain Weaknesses of Previous Attribution Methods

Chapter 8. Thomas Mendenhall’s Visual Curve Word-Length Comparison Model (1887)

Chapter 9. George Udny Yule’s Sentence-Length Ranges and Statistics Model (1939)

Chapter 10. George Udny Yule’s Vocabulary Model (1944)

Chapter 11. Zhao and Zobel’s 634-Text Corpus (2007)

Part 3. Experiments to Verify the New Method’s Accessibility and Accuracy

Chapter 12. Statistical Comparison of Standard versus Newly Proposed Stylometric Methodologies

12.1. Data Randomization to Verify the Strength of Statistical Findings

12.2. Proximity of Same-Byline and Same-Group 19th Century Texts

12.3. Correlation or Incongruity Between Publication Dates’ Distance and Group Matches in Same-Byline Texts

12.4. Influence of Text Size on Test Output

12.5. The Impact of a Multi-Period and Over-Sized Corpus on Attribution Results

12.6. Influence of the Proximity Cut-Off Percentage on Attribution Decisions

12.7. Verifying the Attribution Method by Applying it to Modern Texts

12.8. Structural-Genres and Linguistic-Signatures: Overlaps and Incongruities