[AI Summary]: This book argues that writing about Victorian new media continues to shape reactions to digital change, with the nineteenth century’s confrontation with telecommunications changes and print flood defining contemporary responses. Paul Fyfe traces the origins of digital humanities to Victorian debates about information overload, showing how we have inherited Victorian anxieties about quantitative and machine-driven reading, professional obsolescence in the face of new technology, and more. The work provides a predigital history for the digital humanities through nineteenth-century encounters with telecommunication networks, privacy intrusions, quantitative reading methods, and remediation.
- Author: Paul Fyfe
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Year: 2024
- Pages: 294
- Series: Stanford Text Technologies
- Award: Honorable Mention for the 2025 Rosemary Mitchell Prize (British Association for Victorian Studies)