compared Trollope to, and mentions of particular characters. I am grateful to Paul Pival, special and numeric data services specialist in Libraries and Cultural Resources at the University of Calgary, who scraped the reviews and introduced me to NVivo. 5. Goodreads, November 27, 2017, https://www.goodreads.com/book/ show/29151142-doctor-thorne?from_search=true. 6. “Doctor Thorne > Lists,” Goodreads, November 27, 2017, https://www. goodreads.com/list/book/29151142. 7. Cassandra, “Review of Doctor Thorne,” Goodreads, November 10, 2013; and Kelly, “Review of Doctor Thorne,” Goodreads, Decmber 3, 2016. 8. Cynthia, “Review of Doctor Thorne,” Goodreads, February 25, 2008. 9. Douglas Dalrymple, “Review of Doctor Thorne,” Goodreads, May 21, 2015; Carol Apple, “Review of Doctor Thorne,” Goodreads, February 26, 2015; Margaret, “Review of Doctor Thorne,” Goodreads, October 26, 2010. 10. Christen, “Review of Doctor Thorne,” Goodreads, July 19, 2016. 11. Spiros, “Review of Doctor Thorne,” Goodreads, July 5, 2009. 12. For a summary of this position, see Deidre Lynch, Loving Literature: A Cultural History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 28. 13. Meg, “Review of Doctor Thorne,” Goodreads, February 7, 2017. 14. Margaret O’Connor-Hurst, “Review of Doctor Thorne,” Goodreads, December 29, 2015. 15. Sharon, “Review of Doctor Thorne,” Goodreads, July 2, 2015. 16. Andrew Goldstone and Ted Underwood, “The Quiet Transformations of Literary Studies: What Thirteen Thousand Scholars Could Tell Us,” New Literary History 45, no. 3 (2014): 359–361. Decadence KRISTIN MAHONEY Though our thoughts turn ever Doomwards, Though our sun is well-nigh set, Though our Century totters tombwards, We may laugh a little yet. —John Davidson, A Full and True Account of the Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender 1 636 VLC • VOL. 46, NO. 3/4 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S106015031800044X Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 34.228.24.229, on 23 May 2020 at 19:10:45, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at