Matt Erlin , Washington University in St. Louis
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The Location of Literary History:
Topic Modeling, Network Analysis, and the German Novel, 1731-1864
Matt Erlin, Washington University in St. Louis1
Articles in The German Quarterly 2004-2011
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Goethe’s Werther as a collection of topics
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Inferring topic structure from documents
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Example topics from the corpus
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More example topics from the corpus
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Topics that demand interpretation
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Literary Networks, 1731-1864
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Two-mode network for Jean Paul
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What’s so special about Jean Paul?
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Goethe’s Werther effect
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Mega-Clusters
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The sentimentalism-romanticism cluster
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The romanticism affiliation network
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Topic 7: Quotes from high-scoring passages
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Topic 7: antiquity and fluidity
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How romantic are they?/How are they romantic?
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Literary Networks, 1731-1864
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The eighteenth-century “electrical machine”
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