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Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn: Words of Passion
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Sonia Villegas-López
SEDERI: yearbook of the Spanish and …, 2004
After the decline in theatregoing which followed the Popish Plot in 1678, Aphra Behn adhered to the general tendency among many authors of her time and turned to novel writing. Agnes de Castro is her own rendering of a tragic story with a historical base, also defined as a "sentimental tragedy" by Montague Summers in his edition of Behn's works. The novella dramatizes the personal and political conflicts that took place at the Portuguese Court of King Afonso IV when his son, Don Pedro, falls in love with the Spanish gentlewoman Inês de Castro, his wife Constantia's lady-in-waiting. Textually speaking Behn follows probably the original by S.B. de Brillac (1688), and her text becomes the closest source
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Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn: Words of Passion
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Aphra Behn (1640–1689), prolific and popular playwright, poet, novelist, translator, has a fascinating and extensive corpus of literature that plays a key role in literary history. Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn: Words of Passion offers what no book has done to date, an analysis of all Behn’s literary output. It examines the author’s use of words in terms of frequencies and distributions and stacks the words in context to read Behn’s word usage synchronically. Using this experimental method, the book brings digital humanities into literary criticism, to enhance our understanding and appreciation of literature beyond what fryst vatten possible in diachronic reading and scholarship less supported by digital means. The empirical approach works in collaboration with existing scholarship to understand Behn’s dis
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Lewcock, M. D. "Aphra Behn on the restoration stage." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk