MANHATTAN TRANSFER

Computational analysis of John Dos Passos's Novel



Manhattan Transfer

By

John Dos Passos


Manhattan Transfer is an American novel by John Dos Passos published in 1925. It focuses on the development of urban life in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age as told through a series of overlapping individual stories. It is considered to be one of Dos Passos' most important works.

The book attacks the consumerism and social indifference of contemporary urban life, portraying a Manhattan that is merciless yet teeming with energy and restlessness. The book shows some of Dos Passos' experimental writing techniques and narrative collages that would become more pronounced in his U.S.A. trilogy and other later works.

Manhattan Transfer entered the public domain in 2021.

MANHATTAN TRANSFER

Computational analysis of John Dos Passos's Novel

Explore the sections of the project

  • Text Encoding
  • Read about the encoding process of the novel Manhattan Transfer following the guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative.

  • Voyant
  • Learn more about the novel by reading the analysis performed with Voyant Tools.

  • Network Analysis
  • Discover about the relationships and role of characters in the novel in this Network Analysis performed with Python and Gephi.