Introduction to the Attribution of Literature describes the first
unbiased and accessible authorship attribution method, and uses it to
present the first accurate re-attribution of 311 canonical texts from
the 18th century to only 10 ghostwriters, and 323 texts from the 19th
century to 11 ghostwriters. For example, the little-known Sir Francis
Cowley Burnand is chronologically, stylometrically, and with
handwriting analysis, proven to be the ghostwriter behind 55 canonical
tested texts, including "Emily Bronte's" Wuthering Heights, "Collins'"
Woman in White, "Doyle's" Sherlock Holmes, "Kipling's" Captain
Courageous, "Stoker's" Dracula, "Anthony Trollope's" American Senator,
"Wells'" Island of Doctor Moreau, "Wilde's" Picture of Dorian Gray,
and "Dickens'" Great Expectations. This method applies a combination
of 23 to 28 different types of punctuation, parts-of-speech, and
lexical linguistic tests. Parts of this book offer extensive
statistical evidence in support of why this method’s findings are
quantitatively reliable. If preceding attribution methods had been
equally reliable; then, they would have also concluded canonical
British texts have been overwhelmingly ghostwritten. A section in this
book explains the methodological flaws of these preceding attribution
approaches, because of which they have incorrectly reaffirmed their
canonically-accepted bylines. It includes definitions of central
stylometric terminology, and explains how readers can apply the
described strategies to their own attribution research at any academic
level.
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The Re-Attribution of the British 18th and 19th Century Corpuses
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9781040424964
Publisert
2025
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Taylor & Francis
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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