Literary geography from the pages of a novel

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WHAT lurks behind the literary landmarks of Victorian London? Fear? Joy? Ambiguity?

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