Frankenstein
Each version has specific words that appear in each of them: friend, creature, noble, misery. We transition from the 1818 version to the Thomas version to the 1831 version, and we can see how she progressed as an author to her final piece. In the earlier edition, it was less emotional and more analytical and the later edition, the scene was more emotional and studied more closely the interactions of individuals.
Did Mary Shelley write three different novels?
I don't think she wrote three entirely different novels, merely three versions of the same novel but the progression from start to finish may appear to be two different novels, in what she has changed, inserted, deleted from her original. Her characters may appear different than when she first wrote them because of that. Each version is slightly different but I don't think its enough to be considered different novels.
How does digitizing these texts help us think about the different versions? (visualization!)
Digitizing the texts allows us to look at the novel in ways that we would otherwise be unable to. For example, tag clouds help us to find what concentration of words are found in each text which enables us to make new correlations between them and about them.
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