- Title
- The authorship of two sets of anti-federalist papers: a computational approach
- Creator
- Burrows, John
- Relation
- The Anti-Federalist Writings of the Melancton Smith Circle p. 397-419
- Relation
- http://catalog.libertyfund.org/index.php?page=shop.product_details&product_id=1205
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- A research group from the University of Notre Dame, comprising Michael Zuckert, Derek Webb, and Robert Floyd, invited me to bring the methods of computational stylistics to bear on the putative authorship of two sets of Anti-Federalist papers. These essays were published under the pseudonyms "Brutus" and "the Federal Farmer': in the course of the great public debate about the proposed Constitution of the United States of America in the late 1780s. I was aware from the first that my colleagues hypothesize that "Brutus" was Melancton Smith rather than Robert Yates and that "the Federal Farmer" was Smith rather than Richard Henry Lee, or possibly that Smith was both "Brutus" and "the Federal Farmer." But I have not seen any of their evidence and know little of the case that has previously been made-on either side-about the authorship of these papers. Such published comments as I have seen, however, lead me to believe that the matter deserves careful reappraisal and that the parallel historical and computational inquiries we are undertaking are of considerable value. My colleagues, naturally, are not responsible for any defects in my part of the inquiry.
- Subject
- computational stylistics; authorship; anti-federalist papers
- Identifier
- uon:8605
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918415
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780865977570
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