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Overwhelmed : literature, aesthetics, and the nineteenth-century information revolution / Maurice S. Lee

Author
Lee, Maurice S.
Published
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
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xii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Reading -- Crusoe's Book(s) -- Coleridge's Anxiety of Authorship -- Carrying Out the Wealth of the Indies: Emerson -- ch. 2 Searching -- The New New Historicism -- Slavery and The Scarlet Letter -- The Office of Hawthorne and Company -- Dickens's Dream -- Notes, Queries, and Familiar Quotations -- ch. 3 Counting -- Quantity and Quality -- Stirring Enumerations in Treasure Island -- A Literary History of Adventure Novels -- Lost Worlds, Found Words -- Too Many Codas: Dark Continents, Repulsive Figures, Six Shooters, and Lost Arks -- ch. 4 Testing -- Subjects for Examination -- Impersonality and Impersonation in Our Mutual Friend -- Fictions of Examination -- US Correlations -- "By What Standard Shall We Measure Men?": Testing African Americans -- Coda: Retaking the GRE.
Summary
This book looks at how debates over the fate of literature in our digital age are powerfully conditioned by the nineteenth century's information revolution. It explains what happens to literature during an information revolution, and how readers and writers adapt to proliferating data and texts, both today and in the nineteenth century. Explores four key areas-reading, searching, counting, and testing-and analyzes diverse writings, from canonical works to lesser-known texts.
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ISBN
0691192928 hardcover
9780691192925 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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