"Is Heidi really happier in the mountains? A mixed-methods investigation of spatial affect in fiction." - Data

This repository provides access to the data used in Grisot, G & Herrmann, J. B. (2024) "Is Heidi really happier in the mountains? A mixed-methods investigation of spatial affect in fiction"

It contains the following datasets:

all_entities.csv: the spatial entities lists used in the paper (see Grisot, G & Herrmann, J. B., 2023)

corpus_books_aggr_sent_norm.csv: a corpus of N=184 Swiss literary narrative texts written in German between 1822 and 1940 by 69 Swiss authors, with sentiment values and spatial entities identified in each sentence.

heidi_clean_aggr_sent.csv: the 1880 digitised edition of the novel Heidi, as available from E-Rara, with sentiment values and spatial entities identified in each sentence.

sentiart.csv: the sentiment lexcon SentiArt (Jacobs, 2019)