Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution by Lee, Maurice S.

Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780691192925)

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Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution by Lee, Maurice S.

Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution

$42.00
Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution by Lee, Maurice S.

Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution

$42.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 Bront , 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.

Author: Maurice S. Lee
ISBN-10: 0691192928
ISBN-13: 9780691192925
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/10/2019
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.10d

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By Maurice S. Lee
By Maurice S. Lee
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Maurice S. Lee is chair and professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of Uncertain Chances: Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830-1860.

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