Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities

Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware about...
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Author: Paul Fyfe
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Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities by Fyfe, Paul

Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities

BD$284.69

Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities

BD$284.69
Author: Paul Fyfe
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware about its own epochal telecommunications changes and awash in a flood of print, the nineteenth century confronted the consequences of its media shifts in ways that still define contemporary responses. In this authoritative new work, Paul Fyfe argues that writing about Victorian new media continues to shape reactions to digital change. Among its unexpected legacies are what we call digital humanities, characterized by the self-reflexiveness, disciplinary reconfigurations, and debates that have made us digital Victorians, so to speak, struggling again to resituate humanities practices amid another technological revolution.

Engaging with writers such as Thomas De Quincey, George Eliot, George du Maurier, Henry James, and Robert Louis Stevenson who confronted the new media of their day, Fyfe shows how we have inherited Victorian anxieties about quantitative and machine-driven reading, professional obsolescence in the face of new technology, and more-telling a longer history of how writers, readers, and scholars adapt to dramatically changing media ecologies, then and now. The result is a predigital history for the digital humanities through nineteenth-century encounters with telecommunication networks, privacy intrusions, quantitative reading methods, remediation, and their effects on literary professionals. As Fyfe demonstrates, well before computers, the Victorians were already digital.



Author: Paul Fyfe
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 10/29/2024
Pages: 294
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781503639911

About the Author
Paul 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).

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