Professor Maurice S. Lee
Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution
Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution
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The nineteenth-century information revolution shaped debates over the fate of literature in our digital age, with readers and writers adapting to proliferating data and texts. Maurice Lee's book Overwhelmed explores four key areas in which nineteenth-century British and American literary practices engaged developing information technologies, presenting a new argument that literature and information were entangled in collaborative ways. It offers new insights into todays debates about the digital humanities, the crisis in the humanities, and the future of literature.
Format: Hardback
Length: 296 pages
Publication date: 10 September 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
The impact of the nineteenth-century information revolution on debates surrounding literature's fate in the digital age is explored in depth in the book "Overwhelmed." The author, Maurice Lee, examines how readers and writers adapted to the rapid expansion of print and the emergence of new information technologies. Through a comprehensive analysis of four key areas—reading, searching, counting, and testing—Lee demonstrates how nineteenth-century British and American literary practices engaged with developing information technologies.
The book delves into a diverse range of writings, including canonical works by renowned authors such as Coleridge, Emerson, Charlotte Brontë, Hawthorne, and Dickens, as well as lesser-known texts such as popular adventure novels, standardized literature tests, antiquarian journals, and early statistical literary criticism. By examining these various sources, Lee presents a novel argument: rather than being in conflict, literature and information in the nineteenth century were intertwined in surprising and collaborative ways.
Through its historically grounded approach, "Overwhelmed" offers valuable insights into contemporary debates surrounding the digital humanities, the crisis in the humanities, and the future of literature. The book challenges traditional views of literature and information as opposing forces and suggests that a deeper understanding of the nineteenth-century information revolution can provide new ways of thinking about the anxieties and opportunities of our own digital age.
In conclusion, "Overwhelmed" is a thought-provoking and historically informed book that sheds light on the complex relationship between literature and information in the nineteenth century and its relevance to our digital age. By exploring the ways in which writers and readers adapted to the rapid expansion of print and the emergence of new information technologies, Lee offers a fresh perspective on the debates surrounding the future of literature in the digital era.
Weight: 560g
Dimension: 239 x 164 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780691192925
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