Victorian Novel On File

Name: Victorian Novel On File
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198917939
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Secrets, Hoards, and Information Storage

Autor: Jacob, Priyanka Anne (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Loyola University Chicago)

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Oxford University Press

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The Victorian Novel On File argues that the nineteenth-century information explosion shapes the nove...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Jacob, Priyanka Anne (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Loyola University Chicago)

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2024

strony

208

EAN

9780198917939

Enbook ID

46525935

Wydawca

Oxford University Press

Waga

382

Wymiary

138 x 216

Pełny opis

The Victorian Novel On File argues that the nineteenth-century information explosion shapes the novel form. In a world teeming with data, the novel is a storage medium, cluttered with detail and accumulating more than it can use. The fictional things that have been read as insignificant should be seen instead as vessels of information, embedding the text with potential. This study weaves together a formal account of the novel with media and information studies as well as new materialist approaches to objects. Information took material form in the nineteenth century: in Victorian literature, data can be located in bric-a-brac, folded-up papers, semi-precious stones, and rubbish heaps. Yet this information may never be transmitted as knowledge. Instead, the novel offers indefinite storage, gesturing toward the future while holding action and accountability in abeyance. Fallen by the wayside of plot are documents left on file, containers left unopened, stock left on the shelf, and secrets left untold-enacting, this study argues, the Victorian novel''s aesthetics of deferral. In readings of works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, and Rudyard Kipling, this study illustrates the formal effects of cultural questions about value and meaning, longevity and history, abundance and overwhelm, and keeping and discarding. It closes by showing how these same questions animate the twenty-first century''s information culture as well.

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