TY - JOUR AB - Gender-specific knowledge – just like knowledge in general – is generated through discourses that are disseminated through (mass) media. Among the first mass media is the Spectator press (<i>Moralische Wochenschriften</i>) which spread all over Europe throughout the 18<sup>th</sup> century. With their gender-specific discourses, analyzed in <i>Spectatoriale Geschlechterkonstruktionen </i>(Voelkl 2022), they decisively promote the development of a (bourgeois) gender model, shaping the social perception of gender until today. Against this background, the present article examines the gender-specific discourses in the French and Spanish Spectator periodicals by means of topic modeling which detects semantically related words. The study, which originates from the project <i>Distant Spectators. Distant Reading for Periodicals of the Enlightenment</i> (Scholger et al. 2019–2021), shows that topic modeling reinforces previous findings on gender-specific discourses in the Spectator periodicals. Moreover, it offers new perspectives concerning this research corpus. AU - Yvonne Völkl, Sanja Sarić, Martina Scholger DA - 2022/11// DO - 10.48694/jcls.108 IS - 1 VL - 1 PB - Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt PY - 2022 TI - Topic Modeling for the Identification of Gender-specific Discourse. Virtues and Vices in French and Spanish 18th Century Periodicals T2 - Journal of Computational Literary Studies UR - https://jcls.io/article/id/108/ ER -