{"product_id":"overwhelmed-literature-aesthetics-and-the-nineteenth-century-information-revolution-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaurice S. Lee\u003c\/b\u003e is chair and professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eUncertain Chances: Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSlavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830-1860\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50402660843794,"sku":"9780691259246","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8e2242cf-e73f-47b5-9423-353ff8cf827d.jpg?v=1740407871","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/overwhelmed-literature-aesthetics-and-the-nineteenth-century-information-revolution-9780691259246","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}