Mapping Networks of Reprinting in 19th-Century Newspapers and Magazines http://viraltexts.github.io Back in 2020, Viral Texts Project co-PI Ryan Cordell—henceforth “I,” as I’m also the one writing here—wrote about our collective failure to develop and maintain a database of the reprints we have uncovered through the project. In that post I outlined some of the reasons this imagined database had thus... Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 http://viraltexts.github.io/2024/10/18/new-database/ http://viraltexts.github.io/2024/10/18/new-database/ We are pleased to announce today that the Mellon Foundation has funded a collaboration between the Viral Texts project and the Racial Violence Archive, “The Virality of Racial Terror in US Newspapers, 1863-1921.” VRT will employ text-mining methods to trace the circulation of reports about anti-Black violence in US newspapers... Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 http://viraltexts.github.io/2023/01/24/vrt/ http://viraltexts.github.io/2023/01/24/vrt/ https://github.com/ViralTexts/nineteenth-century-recipes/ Previous experiments through the Viral Texts project have focused on specific genres of nineteenth-century newspaper reprinting, such as fiction, vignettes, news, etc. Thus far, the project has yet to focus on one of the most prolific genres of text in the nineteenth century: the recipe. For many people operating... Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 http://viraltexts.github.io/2021/02/24/c19-recipes/ http://viraltexts.github.io/2021/02/24/c19-recipes/ The Viral Texts team is currently working on a hybrid digital-print book project, Going the Rounds: Virality in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers through the University of Minnesota’s Manifold Scholarship Initiative. We have just published two draft chapters online with Manifold Scholarship: David A. Smith and Ryan Cordell, “Textual Criticism as Language... Tue, 23 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 http://viraltexts.github.io/2019/07/23/draft-chapters-published/ http://viraltexts.github.io/2019/07/23/draft-chapters-published/ This is a peer reviewed but uncopyedited pre-print of an article forthcoming in American Periodicals 27, vol. 1 (Spring 2017). We provide it by the generous permission of the Ohio University Press. When the copyedited issue is published we will provide a link to the final version of the article... Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://viraltexts.github.io/2016/04/08/fugitive-verses/ http://viraltexts.github.io/2016/04/08/fugitive-verses/ This is a pre-print version of this article. The final, edited version will appear in the online edition of American Literary History 27.3 (August 2015). We will add a link to the final version when it is published. This methods piece works in conjunction with a literary-historical article. I. The... Fri, 22 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://viraltexts.github.io/2015/05/22/computational-methods-for-uncovering-reprinted-texts-in-antebellum-newspapers/ http://viraltexts.github.io/2015/05/22/computational-methods-for-uncovering-reprinted-texts-in-antebellum-newspapers/