{"product_id":"overwhelmed-9780691192925","title":"Overwhelmed","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Lee shows in Overwhelmed, the rapid expansion of print created new relationships between literature and information. He presents a new argument: rather than being at odds, as generations of critics have viewed them, literature and information in the 19th century were entangled in surprisingly collaborative ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Eleanor Lybeck, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\"\u003cb\u003e---A.C. Jenkins, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Written in a lively, reflexive manner, \u003ci\u003eOverwhelmed\u003c\/i\u003e 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. . . . \u003ci\u003eOverwhelmed\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Priyanka Anne Jacob, \u003ci\u003eReview 19\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Emma Curry, \u003ci\u003eDickens Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"A beautifully written book. . . . [\u003ci\u003eOverwhelmed\u003c\/i\u003e] will become essential reading for anybody interested in how information was written and written about in the period.\"\u003cb\u003e---James Mussell, \u003ci\u003eReview of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A useful introduction to the study of modern information cultures and a welcome addition to a growing body of scholarship on the subject.\"\u003cb\u003e---James Purdon, \u003ci\u003eJournal of British Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOverwhelmed\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Richard Menke, \u003ci\u003eVictorian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403876540759,"sku":"9780691192925","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691192925.jpg?v=1730484772","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/overwhelmed-9780691192925","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}