Notework - Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style (Hardcover)

Notework begins with a striking insight: the writer's notebook is a genre in itself. Simon Reader pursues this argument in original readings of unpublished writing by prominent Victorians, offering an expansive approach to literary formalism for the twenty-first century. Neither drafts nor diaries, the notes of Charles Darwin, Oscar Wilde, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Vernon Lee, and George Gissing record ephemeral and nonlinear experiences, revealing each author's desire to leave their fragments scattered and unused. Presenting notes in terms of genre allows Reader to suggest inventive new accounts of key Victorian texts, including The Picture of Dorian Gray, On the Origin of Species, and Hopkins's devotional lyrics, and to reinterpret these works as meditations on the ethics of compiling and using data. In this way, Notework recasts information collection as a personal and expressive activity that comes into focus against large-scale systems of knowledge organization. Finding resonance between today's digital culture and its nineteenth-century precursors, Reader honors our most disposable, improvised, and fleeting written gestures.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Stanford Text Technologies
Release date:	June 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Simon Reader
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-5036-1526-7
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-5036-1526-X
Barcode:	9781503615267

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