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

by Maurice S. Lee

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691259240
• ISBN13: 9780691259246
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"