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Counting Culture; or, How to Read Victorian Newspapers from a Distance
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A brief discussion of the potential of newspaper 'culturomics' for nineteenth-century cultural historians is given in this article, where the authors discuss the potential for newspaper 'culture' for cultural historians.Abstract:
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