Network of the Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle
Dangerous Liaisons: Epistolary Structure and Plot Analysis
This paper makes the case that epistolary studies and networked approaches to literature share an important set of concerns. Moreover, the union of these two approaches has a natural application to a specific genre: epistolary novels. The study compares the structure of networks in epistolary novels to the structure of correspondence in real-world networks such as the Carlyle Letters or the Enron Email Dataset. These real-world correspondence networks provide a reference point against which to measure the correspondence networks in epistolary novels.
Washington & Jefferson College