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Introduction to the Attribution of Literature: The Re-Attribution of the British 18th and 19th Century Corpuses
By (author) Anna Faktorovich
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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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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published date | 19 Nov 2025
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 230
Dimensions | 254 x 178 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 600g
ISBN | 978-1-0328-2111-5
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