A Plea for Emigration by Mary Ann Shadd

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 212-213
Author(s):  
Jennifer Harris
Keyword(s):  
Mary Ann Shadd

Dimensions of Scale: Invisible Labor, Editorial Work, and the Future of Quantitative Literary Studies

PMLA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39
Author(s):  
Lauren F. Klein
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Lydia Maria Child ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Additional Layer ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Editorial Work ◽  
Mary Ann Shadd

This essay calls for a conceptual reorientation of how quantitative methods in literary studies are currently framed, arguing for an expansion from a linear model bounded by the endpoints of distant and close to a space defined by multiple dimensions of scale. I explore the axis bounded by visible and invisible as an example of one of the additional dimensions that might constitute this expanded conceptual frame. In demonstrating its potential for producing new knowledge, I examine the editorial work of two women abolitionists, Mary Ann Shadd (1823–93) and Lydia Maria Child (1802–80). I show how topic modeling and statistical analysis can help identify and describe their invisible editorial labor. I thus provide an additional layer of evidence in support of the argument that positions women, and black women in particular, at abolition's vanguard. I also show how both women employed editing as a method of community formation and world building. I conclude by extending the example of editorial work to the labor required to perform quantitative work today, underscoring the importance of expanding the frame in which quantitative methods in literary study are conceptualized and deployed. (LFK)

Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century

1999 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman ◽  
Jane Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Black Press ◽  
Mary Ann Shadd
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