One of the more interesting digital humanities projects I have read about lately is described in today’s New York Times at

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/books/stanford-literary-lab-maps-emotions-in-victorian-london.html?ref=arts&_r=0

 

Stanford Literary Lab Maps ‘Emotions in Victorian London’

 

“In a new data mining project, a Stanford University research collective has sought to map the British capital’s “emotional geography” by categorizing what feelings or sensations common settings convey in the novels of Dickens, Thackeray, Austen and 738 other mostly 19th-century authors.”

 

It would be intriguing to do the same with “emotional” iconography mined from art historical texts…

 

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