I have a student who is interested in tracing the development of the
English novel from its origins to the present day (or at least to the
start of the twentieth century), and I'm trying to gather information
about relevant corpora covering this text type and period.
We know about the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC,
https://www.distant-reading.net/eltec/) which will be very useful for
the later end of the timescale. We also know it is possible to assemble
a corpus from Project Gutenberg, archive.org, Oxford Text Archive, etc.
, but would be interested in re-using any corpora that people might
already have made, which aim to be representative of particular periods
within this genre.
The student has some flexibility with her research question, so while
the original idea of 'English novels' was probably 'novels in English
from Great Britain and Ireland', other related areas such as US novels
might be interesting as well.
Any tips and suggestions gratefully received. If we get a number of
interesting direct emails, I'll be happy to summarize the results to the
list.
Best wishes,
Martin
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Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford
National Co-ordinator, CLARIN-UK
[email protected]
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-0530
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