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Excavating Victorian Cuba in the British Periodicals Database
- Victorian Periodicals Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 47, Number 3, Fall 2014
- pp. 369-397
- 10.1353/vpr.2014.0038
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Britain played a multidimensional role in Cuba’s history during the Victorian period. This essay establishes an empirical warrant for the study of a distinctly Victorian Cuba by applying the tools of data mining and concordance analysis to ProQuest’s British Periodicals, Collections I & II. By identifying specific words and broader concepts that can guide future distant and close readings on this subject, it offers a highly transferrable case study on the use of digitized periodical collections to reconstruct a wide range of imaginative topoi for Victorian readers.