{"product_id":"overwhelmed-maurice-s-lee-9780691259246","title":"Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn engaging look at how debates over the fate of literature in our digital age are powerfully conditioned by the nineteenth century's information revolution\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat 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 \u003ci\u003eOverwhelmed\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExploring four key areas-reading, searching, counting, and testing-in which nineteenth-century British and American literary practices engaged developing information technologies, \u003ci\u003eOverwhelmed\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn unexpected, historically grounded look at how a previous information age offers new ways to think about the anxieties and opportunities of our own, \u003ci\u003eOverwhelmed \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates today's debates about the digital humanities, the crisis in the humanities, and the future of literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maurice S. Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691259240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691259246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.67d","brand":"Maurice S. Lee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45898295836927,"sku":"9780691259246","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a1149ec2-05fc-47f2-82f7-b6ea3812d883.jpg?v=1721375984","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/overwhelmed-maurice-s-lee-9780691259246","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}