The Victorian novel on file : secrets, hoards, and information storage / Priyanka Anne Jacob.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacob, Priyanka Anne, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1835-1915. Lady Audley's secret.

Braddon, M. E.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Little Dorrit.

Dickens, Charles.

Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Daniel Deronda.

Eliot, George.

Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Romola.

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Kim.

Kipling, Rudyard.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Contents

Introduction: The Container of the Novel

1 Lady Audley's Secret and the Files of Detection

2 A City of Secrets in Little Dorrit

3 George Eliot's Remnants of the Past

4 Information on the Move in Kim

Conclusion: Remaindered Bots and Digital Hoards

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 4, 2024).

ISBN:

9780198917960

0198917961

9780198917946

0198917945

OCLC:

1454584219