Basic structure
(Adapted from http://www.usc-teresafanego.es/colmobaeng.pdf)
Genre, period, dialect distribution
British English |
American English |
BrE1 1700-1726 |
— |
BrE2 1732-1757 |
AmE2 1732-1759 |
BrE3 1761-1797 |
AmE3 1774-1804 |
BrE4 1850-1879 |
AmE4 1851-1879 |
Table 1. Range of periods and dialects represented
BrE1
(1700-1726) |
BrE2
(1732-1757) |
BrE3
(1761-1797) |
BrE4
(1850-1879) |
nonfiction: 76,000 w
26 texts
22 authors |
nonfiction: 76,000 w
27 texts
24 authors |
nonfiction: 76,000 w
26 texts
22 authors |
nonfiction: 76,000 w
15 texts
12 authors |
fiction: 124,000 w
11 texts
8 authors |
fiction: 124,000 w
8 texts
7 authors |
fiction: 124,000 w
8 texts
8 authors |
fiction: 124,000 w
8 texts
8 authors |
Total words:
200,000 |
Total words:
200,000 |
Total words:
200,000 |
Total words:
200,000 |
Table 2. Range of texts from British English: fiction vs nonfiction (word [w] totals)
AmE2
(1732-1759) |
AmE3
(1774-1804) |
AmE4
(1851-1879) |
nonfiction: 50,000 w
7 texts
5 authors |
nonfiction: 40,000 w
7 texts
5 authors |
nonfiction: 76,000 w
16 texts
12 authors |
fiction: 80,000 w
4 texts
4 authors |
fiction: 124,000 w
10 texts
8 authors |
Total words:
50,000 |
Total words:
120,000 |
Total words:
200,000 |
Table 3. Range of texts from American English: fiction vs nonfiction (word [w] totals)
Printed texts:
Edwards, Jonathan. 1735. Letter to Rev. Dr. Benjamin Colman. In Nina Baym(ed.), The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. I: Literature to 1820. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.
Edwards, Jonathan. 1754. Freedom of the Will. In Paul Ramsey(ed.), The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. I. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 1862. Thoreau. In Richard Poirier(ed.), The Oxford Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Thoreau, Henry David. 1851-1862. In Walter Harding & Carl Bode (eds.), The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau. New York: New York University Press, 1958.
Woolman, John. 1754. Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes. In Nina Baym(ed.), The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. I: Literature to 1820. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.
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