Matthew Wilkens

Biographic Data

ID154108
NAMEMatthew Wilkens
GIVEN NAMESMatthew
FAMILY NAMEWilkens
SIGNATUREWILKENS M
AFFILIATIONSCornell University
ORCID0000-0001-6749-9318
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • The Afterlives of Shakespeare and Company in Online Social Readership

    Open AccessMaria Antoniak, David Mimno et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cultural Analytics2024

    The growth of social reading platforms such as Goodreads and LibraryThing enables us to analyze reading activity at very large scale and in remarkable detail. But twenty-first century systems give us a perspective only on contemporary readers. Meanwhile, the digitization of the lending library records of Shakespeare and Company provides a window into the reading activity of an earlier, smaller community in interwar Paris. In this article, we expl…

  • Judicial self fashioning: Rhetorical performance in Supreme Court opinions

    Open AccessRosamond Elizabeth Thalken, David Mimno et al.ARTICLEDiscourse Studies2024References: 26

    Justices on the United States Supreme Court use rhetorical strategies to maintain institutional legitimacy. In the court opinion, a strategy called the monologic voice presents a flattering depiction of the Court. The monologic voice occurs through two tones, the individualistic and collective, which respectively maintain the Justices’ legitimacy through critique and the Court’s legitimacy through unification. We train large language models to id…

  • Too isolated, too insular: American Literature and the World

    Open AccessMatthew WilkensARTICLEJournal of Cultural Analytics2021

    Are American authors homers? Do they devote too much of their attention to American concerns and settings? Is American literature as a whole different from other national literatures in its degree of self-interest? We attempt to answer these questions, and to address related issues of national literary identity, by examining the distribution of geo-graphic usage in more than 100,000 volumes of American, British, and other English-language fiction…

  • Nation, Ethnicity, and the Geography of British Fiction, 1880-1940

    Open AccessElizabeth F Wilkens Evans, Elizabeth Evans et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cultural Analytics2018

    Among the most pressing problems in modernist literary studies are those re-lated to Britain’s engagement with the wider world under empire and to its ownrapidly evolving urban spaces in the years before the Second World War. In both cases, the literary-geographic imagination—or unconscious—of the periodbetween 1880 and 1940 can help to shed light on how texts by British and British-aligned writers of the era understood these issues and how they …

  • Genre, Computation, and the Varieties of Twentieth-Century U.S. Fiction

    Open AccessMatthew WilkensARTICLEJournal of Cultural Analytics2016

    Is “literary fiction” a useful genre label in the post-World War II United States? In some sense, the answer is obviously yes; there are sections marked “literary fiction” on Amazon, in bookstores, and on Goodreads, all of which contain many postwar and contemporary titles. Much of what is taught in contemporary fiction classes also falls under the heading of literary fiction, even if that label isn’t alwaysused explicitly

  • Is or Are: The "United States" in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture

    Open AccessBryan Santin, Bryan M Santin et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2016Cited by: 2References: 3

    This article presents a computationally assisted analysis of conceptual changes in American national unity during the nineteenth century through grammatical singularization of the phrase United States in multiple contexts. The study uses corpora ranging from tens of millions to multiple billions of words assembled from books and newspapers published between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is among the first of its type to dr…

  • Toward a Benjaminian Theory of Dialectial Allegory

    Matthew WilkensARTICLENew Literary History2006

    Despite Benjamin's importance to contemporary allegory studies, his understanding of allegory has been widely misconstrued in ways that diminish its applicability to current problems in the field. I attribute this in large part to a failure to integrate his early writings on the subject in The Origin of German Tragic Drama with his later views, expressed in both his writings on Baudelaire and the recently-translated Arcades Project. An examinatio…