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Abby Niederman Phase I and II -- Dataset Description

I have decided to do my dataset on early detective fiction in Europe and America. I have focused my text on a number of detective short stories, plays, and novels, throughout the 19th and early 20th century.

Here is a list of texts that I will be focusing on:
Notting Hill Mystery
Murders in the rue morgue
Purloined letter
Mystery of marie roget
The Moonstone Sergeant Cuff
Study in Scarlett
Hound of the Baskervilles
Sign of the four
Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Lerouge Case/L’Affaire Lerouge
Hunted down – Charles Dickens
Scarlet Pimpernel
Bleak House
Hunted down
The Final Problem

Here are 10 locations I will be including:
Notting Hill, London, England
Paris, France
Srirangapatna, India
Utah, USA
Dartmoor, England
Agra Fort, India
Yorkshire
Essex, England
Bougival, France
Reichenbach Falls, Switzerland

Phase II:

I assembled my materials based on what is considered to be early detective fiction. The stories had to be before 1923, and had to feature certain elements of detective fiction. This includes some sort of detective figure, who uses clues to solve a mystery or crime. I tried to gather materials from a variety of sources, such as different time periods and backgrounds. I gathered the majority of my corpus from Project Gutenberg. The only exception was Whose Body?, which I gathered from University of Penn's digital library project celebrating women writers. With my consultant, I have discovered the intricate connections between these authors, and what influence their writings as they invented this new genre of detective fiction. i have also learned that many of the books share certain themes and locations, that reflect local and international events happening during that period of writing. I have also discovered more obscure authors, some of whom created writing styles that were ahead of their time.

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You've got a great mix of titles here, Abby. Your spreadsheet is also descriptive of why you've chosen each location--however, you need to convert the locations to decimals. Google Earth should be able to do that for you. For example, if you google "London, England lat long" you get 51.5072° N, 0.1275° W. You don't need the degree symbol or the direction, so you would just use: 51.5072, 0.1275.
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1. Abby Niederman Phase I and II -- Dataset Description I have decided to do my dataset on early detective fiction in Europe and America. I have focused my text on a number of detective short stories, plays, and novels, throughout the 19th and early 20th century.
  
  Here is a list of texts that I will be focusing on:
  Notting Hill Mystery
  Murders in the rue morgue
  Purloined letter
  Mystery of marie roget
  The Moonstone Sergeant Cuff
  Study in Scarlett
  Hound of the Baskervilles
  Sign of the four
  Mysterious Affair at Styles
  The Lerouge Case/L’Affaire Lerouge
  Hunted down – Charles Dickens
  Scarlet Pimpernel
  Bleak House
  Hunted down
  The Final Problem
  
  Here are 10 locations I will be including:
  Notting Hill, London, England
  Paris, France
  Srirangapatna, India
  Utah, USA
  Dartmoor, England
  Agra Fort, India
  Yorkshire
  Essex, England
  Bougival, France
  Reichenbach Falls, Switzerland
  
  Phase II:
  I assembled my materials based on what is considered to be early detective fiction. The stories had to be before 1923, and had to feature certain elements of detective fiction. This includes some sort of detective figure, who uses clues to solve a mystery or crime. I tried to gather materials from a variety of sources, such as different time periods and backgrounds. I gathered the majority of my corpus from Project Gutenberg. The only exception was Whose Body?, which I gathered from University of Penn's digital library project celebrating women writers. With my consultant, I have discovered the intricate connections between these authors, and what influence their writings as they invented this new genre of detective fiction. i have also learned that many of the books share certain themes and locations, that reflect local and international events happening during that period of writing. I have also discovered more obscure authors, some of whom created writing styles that were ahead of their time.