“The Emotions of London”, written by Ryan Heuser, Franco Moretti, and Erik Steiner, inaugurates a new field of work for the Literary Lab — that of literary and cultural geography. Working on a corpus of 5,000 novels, and covering the two centuries from 1700 to 1900, this pamphlet charts the uneven development of social spaces and fictional structures, bringing to light the long-term connection between emotion and class in narrative representations of London.
All pamphlets of the Literary Lab can be downloaded at:
https://litlab.stanford.edu/pamphlets/
1. “Quantitative Formalism: An Experiment”
Sarah Allison, Ryan Heuser, Matthew Jockers, Franco Moretti, Michael Witmore
2. “Network Theory, Plot Analysis”
Franco Moretti
3. “Becoming Yourself: The Afterlife of Reception”
Ed Finn
4. “A Quantitative Literary History of 2,958 Nineteenth-Century British Novels: The Semantic Cohort Method”
Ryan Heuser, Long Le-Khac
5. “Style at the Scale of the Sentence”
Sarah Allison, Marissa Gemma, Ryan Heuser, Franco Moretti, Amir Tevel, Irena Yamboliev
6. “ ‘Operationalizing’: or, the Function of Measurement in Modern Literary Theory”
Franco Moretti
7. “Loudness in the Novel”
Holst Katsma
8. "Between Canon and Corpus: Six Perspectives on 20th-Century Novels”
Mark Algee-Hewitt, Mark McGurl
9. “Bankspeak: The Language of World Bank Reports, 1946-2012”
Franco Moretti, Dominique Pestre
10. “On Paragraphs. Scale, Themes, and Narrative Form”
Mark Algee-Hewitt, Ryan Heuser, Franco Moretti
11. "Canon/Archive. Large-scale Dynamics in the Literary Field”
Mark Algee-Hewitt, Sarah Allison, Marissa Gemma, Ryan Heuser, Franco Moretti, Hannah Walser
12. “Literature, Measured”
Franco Moretti