Wilkens et al. present methods for measuring character mobility in English fiction. Diachronically analyzing 13k+ books (1789-2000), they find that characters in fiction move less and follow more formulaic paths than in nonfiction. doi.org/10.48694/jcl...#LiteraryMobility#CLS#Fiction#English
Small Worlds: Measuring the Mobility of Characters in English-Language Fiction
The representation of mobility in literary narratives has important implications for the cultural understanding of human movement and migration. In this paper, we introduce novel methods for measuring...