Literary attribution
Definition
The scholarly practice of assigning an anonymous or disputed text to a specific author, typically in a historical context. Differs from forensic attribution in its standards of evidence, its open publication, and its typically non-adversarial setting.
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- Federalist Papers
- A collection of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym 'Publius' in 1787-1788, advocating for...
- Mosteller-Wallace study
- The 1964 statistical analysis by Frederick Mosteller and David Wallace that attributed all twelve disputed Federalist Papers to Madison using function-word frequency...
- Pseudonymous attribution
- The identification of the real author behind a pen name or anonymous publication. When the attributed author is living and has chosen...
Explained in
- Disputed Authorship in Literature and HistoryThe scholarly practice of assigning an anonymous or disputed text to a specific author, typically in a historical context. Differs from forensic attribution in...