The Digital Future of English - Literary Media Studies

The Digital Future of English: Literary Media Studies takes a refreshingly optimistic approach to the future of English studies by examining how digital technologies recast and expand understandings of what literature is and how literary culture functions.

List of contents

• Introduction: Varieties of Digital Literary StudiesâMicro, Macro, Meso


• 1: Object of Study: Broadening Conceptions of âLiteratureâ for the Digital Era


• 2: Literary Institutions: Situating English between the Humanities and Social Sciences


• 3: The Problem of Affect: Literary Studies, BookTube, and BookTok


• 4: Reading Publics: Bridging Scholarly and Popular Bookish Audiences in the Digital Age


• 5: Machine Learning: Literary Studies Pedagogy in the Digital Era


• Conclusion: Realizing Literary Media Studies

About the author

Simone Murray is Associate Professor in Literary Studies at Monash University and an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She has authored four previous books: Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics (Pluto Press, 2004); The Adaptation Industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation (Routledge US, 2012); The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018); and Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture: Books as Media (Routledge UK, 2021). She is a Board member of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing and an Advisory Editor of its journal Book History.

Summary

The Digital Future of English: Literary Media Studies takes a refreshingly optimistic approach to the future of English studies by examining how digital technologies recast and expand understandings of what literature is and how literary culture functions.

Product details

• Authors: Murray Simone
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 14.11.2025
• EAN: 9780198952619
• ISBN: 978-0-19-895261-9
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Publishing and book trade, publishing industry