Australian Novels, 1945 to 2006

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; Using command lines in terminal to group the data and then copying and pasting the results into Excel. 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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