Transnational Echoes of Spenceanism: A Text-Mining Exploration in English-Language Newspapers (1790–1850)

IF 0.8 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Matilde Cazzola, Anselm Küsters
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Abstract

By tracing mentions of the English radical thinker Thomas Spence (1750–1814), his revolutionary “Plan”, and his disciples (the “Spencean Philanthropists”) in digitized collections of English-language Irish, Caribbean, Indian, Australian, Canadian, and US-American newspapers in the 1790s–1840s, this article explores the dissemination of the ideas and militancy inspired by Spence (“Spenceanism”) across the British Empire and the United States. By applying Digital Humanities methods to investigate British radical history from a transnational perspective, the global reception of Spenceanism is reconstructed by examining and comparing a corpus of 275 newspaper articles through text-mining methods such as keyword analysis, co-occurrences, and sentiment analysis. These methods enable the identification of key themes in references to Spenceanism and advance hypotheses concerning both their geographical and chronological distribution: not only when and where Spence and the Spenceans were alluded to and commented upon, but also how a newspaper's geographical location may have impacted its rhetoric in a specific year and historical context. By combining quantitative and qualitative analysis, this article contributes new insights regarding the global circulation of radical ideas across the nineteenth-century English-reading world.
斯宾塞主义的跨国回声:英语报纸中的文本挖掘探索(1790-1850 年)
本文通过追踪 17 世纪 90 年代至 18 世纪 40 年代爱尔兰、加勒比海、印度、澳大利亚、加拿大和美国英语报纸数字化资料集中提及英国激进思想家托马斯-斯彭斯(Thomas Spence,1750-1814 年)、他的革命 "计划 "及其弟子("斯彭斯慈善家")的内容,探讨了斯彭斯("斯彭斯主义")所激发的思想和激进主义在大英帝国和美国的传播情况。通过运用数字人文方法从跨国视角研究英国激进主义历史,并通过关键词分析、共现和情感分析等文本挖掘方法对 275 篇报纸文章进行研究和比较,重建了斯本斯主义在全球的接受情况。通过这些方法,我们可以确定提及斯宾塞主义的关键主题,并对其地理分布和时间分布提出假设:不仅可以确定斯宾塞和斯宾塞家族在何时何地被提及和评论,还可以确定报纸的地理位置如何影响其在特定年份和历史背景下的言论。通过结合定量和定性分析,这篇文章为激进思想在十九世纪英语阅读世界的全球传播提供了新的见解。
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期刊介绍: International Review of Social History, is one of the leading journals in its field. Truly global in its scope, it focuses on research in social and labour history from a comparative and transnational perspective, both in the modern and in the early modern period, and across periods. The journal combines quality, depth and originality of its articles with an open eye for theoretical innovation and new insights and methods from within its field and from contiguous disciplines. Besides research articles, it features surveys of new themes and subject fields, a suggestions and debates section, review essays and book reviews. It is esteemed for its annotated bibliography of social history titles, and also publishes an annual supplement of specially commissioned essays on a current theme.
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