{"product_id":"notework-simon-reader-9781503615267","title":"Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotework\u003c\/i\u003e begins with a striking insight: the writer's notebook is a genre in itself. Simon Reader pursues this argument in original readings of unpublished writing by prominent Victorians, offering an expansive approach to literary formalism for the twenty-first century. Neither drafts nor diaries, the notes of Charles Darwin, Oscar Wilde, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Vernon Lee, and George Gissing record ephemeral and nonlinear experiences, revealing each author's desire to leave their fragments scattered and unused. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePresenting notes in terms of genre allows Reader to suggest inventive new accounts of key Victorian texts, including \u003ci\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn the Origin of Species\u003c\/i\u003e, and Hopkins's devotional lyrics, and to reinterpret these works as meditations on the ethics of compiling and using data. In this way, \u003ci\u003eNotework\u003c\/i\u003e recasts information collection as a personal and expressive activity that comes into focus against large-scale systems of knowledge organization. Finding resonance between today's digital culture and its nineteenth-century precursors, Reader honors our most disposable, improvised, and fleeting written gestures. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon Reader\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 150361526X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503615267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/22\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2022","brand":"Simon Reader","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43995908014335,"sku":"9781503615267","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aafee69e-3eed-4ca9-aca1-4269c31bd1d4.jpg?v=1683338569","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/notework-simon-reader-9781503615267","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}