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The Victorian novel on file : secrets, hoards, and information storage /

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This book argues that the ample, cluttered Victorian novel was formally shaped by the nineteenth-century information explosion and, specifically, by the pressure to store unprecedented amounts of data. Treating the novel itself as a storage medium and an information system, this book argues that the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacob, Priyanka Anne (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2024].
Subjects:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Information storage and retrieval systems.
Braddon, M. E. > (Mary Elizabeth), > 1835-1915. > Lady Audley's secret.
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870. > Little Dorrit.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880. > Daniel Deronda.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880. > Romola.
Kipling, Rudyard, > 1865-1936. > Kim.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Container of the Novel
  • Lady Audley's Secret and the Files of Detection
  • A City of Secrets in Little Dorrit
  • George Eliot's Remnants of the Past
  • Information on the Move in Kim
  • Conclusion: Remaindered Bots and Digital Hoards.