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Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I Introduction and history: the method of cusum analysis and a test case

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Method Chapter 3 A Test Case for the Attribution of Authorship

PART II Literary and linguistic attributions: the range of QSUM

Chapter 4 Fingerprinting Authors Chapter 5 Henry Fielding as Translator Chapter 6 QSUM and Young Language Chapter 7 Literary Attributions: Varieties and Forms

PART III Forensic applications: preparing a legal report; attributing non-standard English; the critics answered

Chapter 8 Legal Applications – Michael Farringdon

Chapter 9 Non-Standard English and the Courts: Linguistic/Social Background A Case History – M. David Baker

Chapter 10 The Critics Answered

PART IV A detailed account of the development of the cusum technique

Chapter 11 The Question of Authorship – A. Q. Morton

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Index

“A first-rate book, a definitive and admirably lucid exposition of the QSUM technique.” –Sir Kenneth Dover

“ . . . a remarkable book in applied stylometry . . . ” –The Semiotic Review of Books

“. . . a fascinating book. . .for the first time, the QSUM technique is explained in lucid detail, the objections to it are cogently refuted, and the method’s efficacy in solving particular problems of authorship attribution in literature and in law is, in a quite literal sense, graphically demonstrated. There is a remarkable chapter on the development of speech in Helen Keller. And there are literary examples aplenty, among them the authors of The Federalist papers (James Madison and Alexander Hamilton) and Mark Twain; D. H. Lawrence, Muriel Spark, Tom Stoppard, Anthony Burgess – and Henry Fielding . . . There are pitfalls to be avoided, and technical subtleties to be mastered. . .Jill Farringdon carefully identifies these difficulties and, in prose that is clear and jargon free, tells us how to deal with them.” –Professor Martin C. Battestin, Department of English, University of Virginia

“For those inclined to look into its possibilities there is certainly no other book so well able to introduce, explain and illustrate this method of analysis.” –Swansea Review

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