Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style

Presenting notes in terms of genre allows Reader to suggest inventive new accounts of key Victorian texts, including , , and Hopkins's devotional lyrics, and to reinterpret these works as meditations on the ethics of compiling and using data. In this way, 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.