(via When did “The United States” become a singular noun?)
Interesting that it happened so long after the Civil War, though the rise looks like it roughly correlates with the rise of the sectionalist conflict over slavery.
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Crunching Literary Numbers – NYTimes
Consider the question of which themes and books characterize a literary era.
Indeed.
Memento mori with neon moiré.
The frontispiece to A System of Human Anatomy: General and Special by Sir Erasmus Wilson and Paul Beck Goddard (1813). Original from the University of California. Digitized April 27, 2009.
Absalom, Absalom! 
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