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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Maurice S. LeePublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691259246ISBN 10: 0691259240 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 04 June 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available, will be POD  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon it's release. This is a print on demand item which is still yet to be released. Table of ContentsReviews"""Lee is an unfailingly sensitive critic who in effect personalizes each of the case studies he offers. . . . But his sensitivity is tempered by a sense of humour, conveyed through anecdotes and well-placed interjections, that is charming and quite wicked.""---Eleanor Lybeck, Times Higher Education ""With éclat, good humor, and command of a large body of transatlantic 19th-century literature, Lee . . . invites readers to think along with him as he limns the entangled origins of information and literature in an age of textual superabundance. . . . Highly recommended""---A.C. Jenkins, Choice ""Written in a lively, reflexive manner, Overwhelmed is ‘multi-scalar’ and ecumenical in approach, gliding from historical context to close readings, literary histories, distant readings and quantitative analysis, and meta-commentary on the profession. . . . Overwhelmed is a valuable resource not only for exploring cultural history or scholarly practice, but also for tracing our own reliance on information to its nineteenth-century roots.""---Priyanka Anne Jacob, Review 19 ""This book brings together an impressive and breath-taking number of source materials, which at times can contribute to the very feeling of information overload that Lee explores so eloquently in his work. . . . This is a book that brings together scholars of the nineteenth century and digital humanities in rich and illuminating ways, and offers a wealth of exciting possibilities and provocations for the future scholarship of both fields.""---Emma Curry, Dickens Quarterly ""A splendid and indispensable book. . . . Lee restores for us a history we should not forget, since among its many implications and developments are the ways in which we understand the study of literature today."" * New England Quarterly * ""A beautifully written book. . . . [Overwhelmed] will become essential reading for anybody interested in how information was written and written about in the period.""---James Mussell, Review of English Studies ""A useful introduction to the study of modern information cultures and a welcome addition to a growing body of scholarship on the subject.""---James Purdon, Journal of British Studies ""Overwhelmed makes a convincing case for the anxieties and excitements of information overload in the nineteenth century and the implications they could hold for literature and literary knowledge.""---Richard Menke, Victorian Studies" Author InformationMaurice S. Lee is chair and professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of Uncertain Chances: Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 18301860. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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