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

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lee, Maurice S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Literatur
Ästhetik
Literature and science.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Comparative Literature.
Litterature et sciences > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literature and science > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Reading; Crusoe's Book(s); Coleridge's Anxiety of Authorship; Carrying Out the Wealth of the Indies: Emerson; Chapter 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; Chapter 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
  • Chapter 4. TestingSubjects 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; Notes; Index

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