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Style and the Scribbling Women - An Empirical Analysis of Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (Hardcover, New)
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Style and the Scribbling Women - An Empirical Analysis of Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (Hardcover, New)
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Derogation of nineteenth-century women novelists was often the
immediate response to their works. While modern feminist
scholarship has repudiated this view of scribbling women, finding
much of value in both substance and style in this body of
literature, many critics and academics remain uninformed and
continue to present an almost totally male canon as representative
of meritorious writing of this period. The present work undertakes
an empirical test of stereotypical notions about women's and men's
nineteenth-century fiction, utilizing the computer to examine
80,000 words of running text from passages randomly chosen in
twenty novels each by women and men. This material is analyzed for
occurrences of various aspects of writing style, such as similes,
parallel structures, rhetorical devices, and certain adverbs and
adjectives, as well as for sentence length and complexity. That
these nonimpressionistic findings show no overwhelming gender
differences should finally put to rest traditional negative
stereotypes about nineteenth-century women writers. The author of
an empirical analysis of twentieth-century fiction by men and
women, Professor Hiatt uses these previous findings for a
comparison of twentieth and nineteenth-century materials. The
twentieth-century analysis showed greater linguistic and stylistic
disparities between men's and women's writing. A comparison with
the nineteenth-century materials indicates that diachronic shifts
have occurred much more broadly and drastically in fiction by male
authors. Carefully documented and written, this study will be
valuable for researchers and students of women's studies,
nineteenth-century American literature, linguistics, stylistics,
and computer applications in the humanities.
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