English Literature — A Knowledge Graph

English Literature — A Knowledge Graph

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English literature · a graph of ideas

English Literaturea knowledge graph 3,573 works · 15 authors · 15,704 excerpts

A connected reading of the English canon

Not an archive.
A network of ideas.

Every work is divided into reading units and tied to all the others through what they share: themes, archetypes, motifs, forms, settings, historical references, characters.

Open a work to follow its links; open a concept to see every work that carries it.

Enter through a themeAll works

The eight ways of meaning

Navigate the concept spaces →
Topoi45recurring situationsArchetypes52universal figuresMotifs157images that returnConcepts289themes and ideasForms76genres and metresHistorical References143history in the textSettings68places and landscapesCharacters1202who recurs

Thematic families

15 of 107 · the constellations that cross authors

Fifteen voices

click an emblem to enter an author's work

Three and a half centuries

each author placed at the year of their central work
16001650170017501800185019001950
Shakespeare1600202Coleridge1798434Austen18137Keats1819142Poe1845110Brontë18477Dickens185323Whitman1855354Dickinson18621764Wilde189132Conan Doyle189281Belloc190263Chesterton1908228Eliot1922124Sayers19352
Authoryear of the central workWorks

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