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Peer reviewedDanielson, Wayne A.; Lasorsa, Dominic L. – Journal of Reading, 1989
Investigates whether novelistic prose can be dated by considering marked stylistic changes that occurred over the past 240 years. Finds a positive correlation between publication date and stylistic markers of sentence length, word length, rare punctuation, and word shortening or informality. Argues that this process can form the basis for new…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Correlation, Eighteenth Century Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature
