README.md

Wright-American-Fiction

Overview

Wright American Fiction collection contains most of the texts referenced in Wright's American fiction from the years 1851–1875, and considered the most comprehensive bibliography of American adult fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries. The XML/TEI P5 and plain text files are in the public domain and freely available for analysis.

Textual Analysis Tools

The following are a list of sample tools that can be used with the above data:

TEI-Aware Tools

• PhiloLogic/PhiloMine (installation required)
• TXM (installation required)

Plain Text Tools

• Lexos (installation required)
• Mallet for topic-modeling (installation required)
• Voyant for textual analysis (web-based)
• VUE for visualization and other analyses (registration and installation required