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Visualizing Lexical Novelty in Literature
image: each chapter is a column, each block is a paragraph. red represents a block of text with at least 25% new terms (lexical novelty); blue is 0-25% new terms.
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So: After rocking the lexical complexity with Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen tried again four years later with Emma. She got bored a third of the way in and gave up, only to feel remorse in the last chapter.