Data and code supporting the article '200 Years of Children in the Novel: On their Visibility, Value, and Agency' (CCLS 2026). The dataset was created by author Andrew Piper and harvested from the Borealis Dataverse platform. It was last updated on April 25, -2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze the visibility of child characters in novels based on textual mentions.
- Measure the narrative value or agency assigned to children in fiction based on computational metrics.
- Conduct diachronic studies of child representation over a 200-year period based on the temporal scope.
- Train or validate NLP models for character analysis based on the annotated literary corpus.
Strengths
- Explicitly supports a peer-reviewed academic article (CCLS 2026), indicating research-grade curation.
- Focuses on a specific, defined research question regarding children in novels over 200 years.
- Includes associated code, which likely facilitates reproducibility of the analysis.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality, format, and size require manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics and data structure must be inferred after download.
- Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific tasks.
Provenance
- Source
- Borealis Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Likely derived from a corpus of novels for computational analysis.
- Time Range
- Covers a 200-year period, as indicated by the title.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-25 04:17:01; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
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