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'Taking a cue from Franco Moretti's research, my article applies statistical methods to probe the history of publishing Australian novels both locally and internationally. By temporarily suspending our discipline's preoccupation with close readings and canonical judgements, I aim to demonstrate how the computational analysis of large-scale publication data about Australian novels can also provoke alternative kinds of, and responses to, Australian literary history.' (Author's abstract)
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'This article is based on eighteen months of consecutive data analysis conducted at the Australia Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, and it is located within the context of Richard Nile's CI-1 ARC Discovery grant "Colonial Publishing and Literary Democracy in Australia: An Analysis of the Influence on Australian Literature of British and Australian Publishing".' (218)
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Epigraph: History is indeed 'a poor little conjectural science' when it selects individuals as its objects ... but much more rational in its procedures and results, when it examines groups and repetitions. (Braudel in Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees 68)
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