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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Paul FyfePublisher: Stanford University Press Imprint: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9781503639911ISBN 10: 1503639916 Pages: 294 Publication Date: 29 October 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. How the Internet Lost (and Found) Its Body: The Dream of Disintermediation from the Mail Coach to Transoceanic Cables 2. Data Ethics from Realism to the Right to Be Forgotten 3. Henry James, Counting Words, and Machine Reading 4. Jekyll, Hyde, and the Dark Side of Digital Humanities 5. The Archaeology of Victorian New Media Afterword: The Digital Victorian Frame of Mind, 1957–2020 Notes IndexReviews"""Fyfe makes a powerful case for tracing the origins of digital humanities to Victorians' debates about information overload. Digital Victorians offers an important and innovative contribution to digital humanities as a field, to media history, and to Victorian literary studies.""—Jon Lawrence, University of Exeter ""This work offers an exciting new lens for understanding the Victorian era. Fyfe ranks among the leaders in bringing together Victorian studies and the digital humanities, and this work shows him at the top of his game.""—Adrian Wisnicki, University of Nebraska–Lincoln ""Full of elegant, surprising readings, Fyfe's book is required reading for anyone who is concerned about the material and epistemological stakes of how we know what we know about the past (and that should be all of us).""—Meredith Martin, Princeton University" Author InformationPaul Fyfe is Associate Professor in the Department of English, North Carolina State University. He is the author of By Accident or Design: Writing the Victorian Metropolis (2015). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |