About

Our Project

We focused on comparing Gothic and Horror fiction from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. We compiled a corpus of 213 Gothic and Horror short stories and novels, collected from Project Gutenberg. Using various text analysis methods and tools, we explored the following questions:

This project was completed for Lindsay Thomas's undergraduate Digital Literary Studies course at Clemson University in Spring 2016. It was a totally student-driven experiment in collaborative project development: it was conceived, organized, executed, and implemented by the students in the class over the course of three and a half weeks. We are using this site to share our results and to spur further investigation.

Our Corpus

Works in our corpus came from Project Gutenberg’s Gothic and Horror bookshelves. We collected both short stories and novels, trying to capture everything stored on Project Gutenberg in those categories.

Below are links to our Google drive, which contains the full corpus, the Gothic corpus, the Horror corpus, and folders that contain the corpora each group analyzed and the data they produced in the course of their analysis. Our Google drive also contains a metadata spreadsheet that contains information about each of the texts we collected.

Class Members

Resources and Acknowledgments

Final project assignment page: http://lindsaythomas.net/engl4590/final-project/

Many thanks to Alan Liu and the students in his Hacking Literary Interpretation course at UC Santa Barbara. Their final project was a model for ours.