The Dirt Lit Project will use a large corpus of Anglophone fiction from the 19th through the 21st C. I hope some people will be willing to be collaborators at any level or advisors to this project. I welcome your comments.
This project will test a theory that culture is based upon distance form "dirt," "dirty jobs," and "dirty places."
The Great Gatsby example: Jay Gatsby's huge secret is that his father, German immigrant Henry C. Gatz still lives in "The Valley of Ashes" between "Old Money" West Egg and "New Money" East Egg. (I may have those backwards.)
Hiding that dirty secret is the plot thread of this F. Scott Fitzgerald classic novel.
In a content analysis, we can assess the role of the dirt cluster of keywords in various novels.
Crossing most ideological and religious divisions, there is really no society in which the upper caste or class lives closer to dirt than the lower.
This holds implications as well for ecological justice and class divides in the environmental movements.
I did a content analysis of Dracula that showed that the English vampire hunters were racist and colonial based on a cluster of 'blood' terms.
"Somebody stole my gal: word cluster analysis
of exogamy fears in Stoker's Dracula "
Extrapolation Fall 2002 43.3 pp.330-341
Article Somebody Stole My Gal: Word Cluster Analysis of Exogamy Fear...
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My reference that proposed this issue of colonial racism:
Journal Article
Stephen D. Arata "The Occidental Tourist: "Dracula" and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization" Victorian Studies Vol. 33, No. 4 (Summer, 1990), pp. 621-645
Published by: Indiana University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3827794
Pl read the useful linkhttps://ota.ox.ac.uk/documents/searching/handbook.html
Colleague Roy,
Thanks very much. We used TEI light as part of our search tools.
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