Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 277 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9780691194219
Content:
An engaging look at how debates over the fate of literature in our digital age are powerfully conditioned by the nineteenth century's information revolution. What happens to literature during an information revolution? How do readers and writers adapt to proliferating data and texts? These questions appear uniquely urgent today in a world of information overload, big data, and the digital humanities. But as Maurice Lee shows in Overwhelmed, these concerns are not new—they also mattered in the nineteenth century, as the rapid expansion of print created new relationships between literature and information. Exploring four key areas—reading, searching, counting, and testing—in which nineteenth-century British and American literary practices engaged developing information technologies, Overwhelmed delves into a diverse range of writings, from canonical works by Coleridge, Emerson, Charlotte Brontë, Hawthorne, and Dickens to lesser-known texts such as popular adventure novels, standardized literature tests, antiquarian journals, and early statistical literary criticism. In doing so, Lee presents a new argument: rather than being at odds, as generations of critics have viewed them, literature and information in the nineteenth century were entangled in surprisingly collaborative ways. An unexpected, historically grounded look at how a previous information age offers new ways to think about the anxieties and opportunities of our own, Overwhelmed illuminates today’s debates about the digital humanities, the crisis in the humanities, and the future of literature
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Reading -- Chapter Two. Searching -- Chapter Three. Counting -- Chapter Four. Testing -- Notes -- Index
Note:
restricted access online access with authorization star
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691192925
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Print-Ausgabe Lee, Maurice S., 1963 - Overwhelmed Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2019 ISBN 0691192928
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691192925
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
Literatur
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Ästhetik
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Geschichte 1800-1900
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Englisch
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Literatur
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Ästhetik
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Geschichte 1800-1900
DOI:
10.1515/9780691194219
URL:
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
