"Technologies of the Novel offers the first quantitative history of the novel's development over the course of over two centuries in France and England. As such, it breaks with the common practice of using select works to tell a story about the genre's rise from infancy to adult…
Based on a systematic sampling of French and English novels over more than two centuries, this book sets aside the familiar histories of the genre's so-called 'rise', proposing that the novel is a system whose constant yet patterned flux must be understood in the context of tech…
"Technologies of the Novel offers the first quantitative history of the novel's development over the course of over two centuries in France and England. As such, it breaks with the common practice of using select works to tell a story about the genre's rise from infancy to adult…
"Technologies of the Novel offers the first quantitative history of the novel's development over the course of over two centuries in France and England. As such, it breaks with the common practice of using select works to tell a story about the genre's rise from infancy to adult…
Big Books in Times of Big Data
This book explores the aesthetics, medial affordances, and cultural economics of monumental literary works of the present. Using a wide-ranging international archive of hefty tomes by authors such as Mark Z. Danielewski, Roberto Bolaño, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausgård, Ge…