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• Title:Notework : Victorian literature and nonlinear style / Simon Reader.
  
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• Author/Creator:Reader, Simon, 1981- author.
  
• Published/Created:Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PR468.N66 R43 2021
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Authors, English--19th century--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
  English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
  Literary form--History--19th century.
  
• Genre/Form:Literary criticism.
  
• Description:ix, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Text technologies.
  
• Summary:"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 Simon Reader pursues this argument in original readings of unpublished writing by prominent Victorians, offering a more expansive approach to literary formalism for the twenty-first century.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 textual gestures"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781503615267 hardcover
  150361526X hardcover
  9781503627970 electronic publication
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I USELESSNESS
  1. Styles of Inconsequence: Charles Darwin
  2. Thinking Pieces: George Gissing and Roland Barthes
  pt. II COLLECTIVE
  3. Gerard Manley Hopkins and Microsocial Form
  4. Computer Program Called "Wilde"
  pt. III SWELLS
  5. Unrecovering Vernon Lee.