Australian Novels, 1830 to 1899

Full description

I extracted the records for these datasets using the following steps: Performing guided searches in AustLit, asking for Type – 'single work' – and Form – 'novel' – records for particular year ranges; Displaying these results as tagged text (NOTE: during the period when I created and updated these datasets – January 2007 to December 2011 – AustLit would not display more than 999 records as tagged text; as long as this remains the case, those wishing to extract data via this process will need to design searches that return less than 1000 results); Copying and pasting these results into a text file; This process left me with Excel files that initially included the type, title, author, year of publication, publisher and genre/s for Australian novels first published between 1830 and 1899 and between 1945 and 2009. I then added information to the datasets as my research developed and specific questions emerged (for full descriptions of the content of these datasets see below). The dataset contains a description of the novel based on the forms in which it was published and their order, including, 'Book Only' (for titles only published in book form); 'Serial Only' (for titles only published in serial form); 'Serial then Book' (for titles published first as serials then as books); 'Book then Serial' (for titles published first as books then as serials); 'Same Year Book and Serial' (when serial and book versions of the novel came out in the same year); 'Book Also Serial' (in the one case where I could not determine whether the book preceded, or came out in the same year as, the serial); and 'Serial Much Later Book' (when book publication followed many decades after initial serialisation).

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