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Class Activities Day 1: Victorian Sensation Fiction and Themes
(2019-01) Bowden, Mary
These are the teaching notes and slide deck for Day 1. These materials introduced Victorian literature, sensation fiction, and literary themes.
Class Activities Day 3: Lady Audley's Secret and Close Reading
(2019-01) Bowden, Mary
These are the teaching notes and slide deck for Day 2. These materials guided students through an interpretation of a passage in Lady Audley's Secret.
Class Activities Day 6: Lady Audley's Secret, Madness, Gender, and Close Reading
(2019-01) Bowden, Mary
These are the teaching notes and slide deck for Day 6. These materials guided students through a discussion of madness in the novel before turning to an annotation activity.
Class Activities Day 7: Lady Audley's Secret, sympathy, and class
(2019-01) Bowden, Mary
These are the teaching notes and slide deck for Day 7. These materials guided students through discussion of gender, class, and power in Lady Audley's Secret.
Class Activities Day 8: Digital Tools for Revision and Reflection
(2019-01) Bowden, Mary; Borgo Ton, Mary; Story, Daniel
These are the teaching notes and slide deck for Day 8. These materials described digital tools for revision and reflection. In preparation for class, Daniel Story downloaded the copy of Lady Audley's Secret that students had been annotating and ran a Python script to generate a spreadsheet of student annotations and their themes. After a discussion of madness at the beginning of class, Mary Borgo Ton led a data cleaning and network analysis activity that asked students to identify passages that overlapped thematically.
Class Activities Day 9: Wrapping up the Digital Critical Edition Assignment
(2019-01) Bowden, Mary
These are the teaching notes and slide deck for Day 9. These materials guided students through a group discussion in preparation for their reflective paper.
Digital Critical Edition Assignment Instructions
(2019-01) Bowden, Mary
In this assignment, students chose a theme to look for as they read Lady Audley's Secret and annotated a digital copy of the novel via Google docs. Students then wrote a reflection to describe their annotation practices, describe the patterns that they noticed, and analyze their findings.
Guide: Analyzing themes with network analysis
(2019-01) Story, Daniel
This is the Python script that we used to transform annotations in Google Docs into a spreadsheet in preparation for network analysis on Day 8 of the Digital Critical Edition Assignment. The Python script is a version of Beautiful Soup. The readme file contains instructions on how to structure a Google doc version of a novel so that it can be used with the Python script. In order to use the code, you must have Python installed on your computer.
L204: Introduction to Fiction Syllabus
(2019-01) Bowden, Mary
This is the syllabus for Dr. Mary Bowden's Spring 2019 section of L204: Introduction to Fiction.
Magic lantern shows through a macroscopic lens: Topic modelling and mapping as methods for media archaeology
(2019-09) Borgo Ton, Mary
This is a pre-print version of an article that will be published in a special issue of Early Popular Visual Culture. This article explores trends across Lucerna, an online web resource, by combining two digital approaches: topic modeling and geospatial mapping. Topic modeling identifies words that occur most frequently together in a large corpus of texts through a form of statistical analysis. Using this method, I studied 2,000 descriptions of magic lantern shows given in between 1874 and 1903. While there were records from Canada, India, and New Zealand in this data set, most of these lantern shows occurred in England. The groupings of words, or “topics”, reflected the prevalence of the Church Army, Band of Hope, and Sunday Schools in Lucerna’s textual record. Mapping these patterns revealed that descriptions of magic lantern shows were relatively uniform across the UK, suggesting that magic lantern shows in urban and rural spaces were represented similarly in periodical literature. Since the topics did not vary by region, I studied how the most prevalent topics differed by host organization and how they changed over time. Descriptions of lantern shows given by evangelistic organizations shared vocabulary with those hosted by Sunday Schools and temperance societies. Individual terms like “friends”, “tea”, “dissolving”, and “interesting” appear in descriptions of lantern shows given by the Church Army, Sunday Schools, and the Band of Hope. Placing these terms in within a topic reveals that these terms appear in different combinations depending on the organization hosting the lantern show. For example, “friend” is statistically more likely to occur alongside “interesting” and “dissolving [view]” in an educational context than in a description of a show given by the Church Army. The fact that evangelistic shows tended to avoid the language of entertainment reflects earlier discourse about the magic lantern on the mission field. Missionaries like David Livingstone emphasized the usefulness of the lantern in their published accounts of their lantern shows, yet their journals and diaries often foreground the value of the lantern as an entertainment. The decline in topics related to Sunday Schools over time corresponds with the rise of educational lantern lectures, particularly those given by secular institutions like the Royal Albert Memorial Museum. Yet, the inheritance that these secular shows inherited from their precursors in the Sunday School is preserved in the inclusion of “Chinese” in a topic describing Frederic Rowley’s lectures at the RAMM. Although Rowley never presented a lecture on China, descriptions of his shows resemble the geographical lectures given the Church Army and in Sunday Schools with the assistance of Newton and Company’s “China and the Chinese”. This study suggests that topic modeling can be used to excavate the performance history of lantern shows by foregrounding latent linguistic similarities in published descriptions of these events.
Student Themes and Annotations
(2019-01) Bowden, Mary; Story, Daniel
This list of themes, annotations, and passages from Lady Audley's Secret was generated using a Python script written by Daniel Story. It was used as part of the network analysis class activity in Day 8 of the Digital Critical Edition Assignment for Mary Bowden's L204: Introduction to Fiction course.
Topical places, textual spaces
(2019-11-22) Borgo Ton, Mary
When the Royal Geographical Society in London made plans to purchase a magic lantern in 1890 for lectures, one of their members objected by calling the lantern show a “Sunday School Treat.” This keynote combines text analysis with geospatial mapping to trace the treat’s legacy. Such an approach is made possible by Lucerna, an open access resource that digitally remediates information about when and where lantern shows occurred. I use topic modeling, a form of statistical analysis, to identify literary tropes in eyewitness accounts of lantern shows that took place in Britain between 1874 and 1903. Mapping these topics reveals that the textual landscape created by missionary periodicals did not reflect the geographic distribution of lantern shows. Instead, published accounts offered a relatively uniform view of the lantern as an educational tool, regardless of the audience. This mode of media archaeology ultimately implicates acts of analog remediation in digital visualizations.

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