A collection of small corpora prepared by the Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham.
| Corpus | Description |
|---|---|
| DNov | Dickens' novels |
| 19C | 19th Century Novels |
> library(CorporaCorpus)
> corpus_metadata('19C')
author title year
pride Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 1813
emma Jane Austen Emma 1815
frank Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus 1818
persu Jane Austen Persuasion 1818
vivian Benjamin Disraeli Vivian Grey 1826
pomp Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Last Days of Pompeii 1834
sybil Benjamin Disraeli Sybil; Or, The Two Nations 1845
agnes Anne Bronte Agness Grey 1847
jane Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre 1847
vanity William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair 1847
wuth Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights 1847
mary Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Mary Barton 1848
anto Wilkie Collins Antonina; or, The Fall of Rome 1850
cran Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Cranford 1851
north Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South 1855
prof Charlotte Bronte The Professor 1857
woman Wilkie Collins The Woman in White 1859
mill George Eliot The Mill on the Floss 1860
alli Anthony Trollope The Small House at Allington 1862
audley Mary Elizabeth Braddon Lady Audley's Secret 1862
arma Wilkie Collins Armadale 1864
deronda George Eliot Daniel Deronda 1876
native Thomas Hardy The Return of the Native 1878
jekyll Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1886
dorian Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890
tess Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman 1892
jude Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure 1896
dracula Bram Stoker Dracular 1897
basker Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles 1901
> GE_text <- readLines(corpus_filepaths('DNov', title = 'Great Expectations'))
> head(GE_text, 15)
[1] "GREAT EXPECTATIONS"
[2] ""
[3] "by Charles Dickens"
[4] ""
[5] ""
[6] "Chapter I"
[7] ""
[8] "My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my"
[9] "infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit"
[10] "than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip."
[11] ""
[12] "I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his"
[13] "tombstone and my sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith."
[14] "As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness"
[15] "of either of them (for their days were long before the days of"
> DICKENS_texts <- lapply(corpus_filepaths('DNov'), readLines)
> str(DICKENS_texts, nchar.max = 90)
List of 15
$ PP : chr [1:36445] "THE PICKWICK PAPERS" "" "By Charles Dickens" "" ...
$ OT : chr [1:18692] "OLIVER TWIST" "OR" "THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS" "" ...
$ NN : chr [1:37189] "THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY," "containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes," ...
$ OCS: chr [1:23665] "The Old Curiosity Shop" "" "By Charles Dickens" "" ...
$ BR : chr [1:27260] "BARNABY RUDGE" "" "A TALE OF THE RIOTS OF 'EIGHTY" "" ...
$ MC : chr [1:37448] "LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT" "" "by Charles Dickens" "" ...
$ DS : chr [1:39093] "DOMBEY AND SON" "" "By Charles Dickens" "" ...
$ DC : chr [1:38119] "DAVID COPPERFIELD" "" "By Charles Dickens" "" ...
$ BH : chr [1:39753] "BLEAK HOUSE" "" "by" "" ...
$ HT : chr [1:11519] "HARD TIMES" "" "By CHARLES DICKENS" "" ...
$ LD : chr [1:36787] "LITTLE DORRIT" "" "By Charles Dickens" "" ...
$ TTC: chr [1:15803] "A TALE OF TWO CITIES" "" "A STORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION" "" ...
$ GE : chr [1:20018] "GREAT EXPECTATIONS" "" "by Charles Dickens" "" ...
$ OMF: chr [1:38508] "OUR MUTUAL FRIEND" "" "Charles Dickens" "" ...
$ MED: chr [1:11428] "THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD" "" "" "" ...
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download.file may not support fetching https URLs. Alternatively, you
can use the the CRAN package downloader
to fetch the archive instead:
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pkg_file <- tempfile()
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install.packages(pkg_file, repos = NULL, type = 'source')
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devtools::install_github("birmingham-ccr/CorporaCorpus")