About a month ago I started thinking about some possible searches - faceted and otherwise - that we might want to be able to do; I also started thinking about different ways we might eventually want to be able to visualize the results of the searches. See my first thoughts, below.
Your thoughts - perhaps in the form of some individual blog posts that explore and speculate on a single or a couple of facets in detail?
A few thoughts:
Genre and geography
Search: ‘adventures’; map to discover correlation in US/UK
[q about value w/in SM collection vs with larger set]
Genre and time
Search: ‘life’ in title; show by decade
Narrative form
Search: all epistolary novels; narrow to all with “letters” in the title; narrow by date further to compare changes in understanding of genre 1660-1830
Title page authorship
Narrow entire set to books w/ no proper name on title page AND THEN
Narrow to those w/ paratexts claiming to be by the author OR
Narrow to those paratexts w/ and author’s name
Narrow to those with no proper name on tp with author’s name in paratext which is identical w/ bibliography’s author’s name (?)
More facet sample searches:
Narrow to first editions
Narrow to novels first published in N. America/UK
Narrow to novels with no other existing edition
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