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The following study employs a quantitative analysis of the Romanian novelistic production from the period 1901- 1932. By using the literary corpus developed by the research project ASTRA Data Mining. The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel 1901-1932, implemented by ASTRA National Museum Complex, this paper focuses on the secondary canonical writers (with their "b-sides and rarities"), the novelists'origins, the abundance and the geographical nodes of production, in order to investigate the dynamic relation between national cultural centers and their respective editorial networks, as well as the mechanisms of canonization within the Romanian novel of the period [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article approaches a series of conceptual optimizations of the subgenres of the Romanian 19th century novels established by the Chronological Dictionary of the Romanian Novel from Origins to 1989 (2004). Starting by analyzing the corpus of works digitized for ASTRA Data Mining. The Digital Museum of the 19th Century Romanian Novel, the authors revisit possible definitions of some of the most preeminent and discussed typologies of the 19th century novel production in Romania: the outlaw novel, the social novel, the novel of manners, the rural novel, the historical novel, the sensation novel, the erotic novel, and the family novel. The central goal of the article is, therefore, to shape a taxonomy that fits the formal, thematical, and rhetorical variety of the Romanian novel in the 19th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study assesses the existing archives that gather and preserve in digital versions the Romanian novel published in the 19 th century. Digitalization projects, both in Romania and in Europe, are the main subjects of this research. Adding to this, we share the particular and common experiences of the Astra Data Mining: The Digital Museum of the 19th Century Romanian Novel in terms of the process of digitizing the 157 novels in our corpus. Other details such as the specific editions digitized, the process of selection, as well as any difficulties met along the way are also provided. At the same time, the activities of our project are also corroborated with similar European projects. In order to address our digitization practice, we also explore a theoretical and methodological framework borrowed by Stanford Literary Lab in terms of conceptualizing what the American researchers call "the published", "the archive" and "the corpus". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing from the most recent developments in the field of Digital Humanities, the article showcases some of the most promising methods as well as some of the most useful tools for computational textual analysis. Textometry, stylometry and network analysis (alongside topic modelling or distributional semantics) are nowadays methods that, through the recent developments in digital formalism proposed by Matthew L. Jockers or the researchers from Stanford Literary Lab, are able to reveal literary and cultural patterns at a macroanalytical method. The article will delve into computational stylistics by testing the Stylo package, developed by Maciej Eder, Jan Rybicki and Mike Kestemont, on a sample corpus provided by the ASTRA Data Mining Project, attempting to explore the merits of such methods in the field of Romanian literary studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]