INFORMATION AND ENTROPY: A VICTORIAN DILEMMA
The Midwest Victorian Studies Association announces a call for papers for
"INFORMATION AND ENTROPY: A VICTORIAN DILEMMA"
Indiana University, Bloomington
in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of *Victorian Studies*.
"Discontent increases with the increase of information."--The economist Mr. MacQuedy in *Crochet Castle*
The topic of the 1996 MVSA conference, "Information and Entropy," will be the emergence of new technologies and a new culture of information between the 1830s and 1914. How did these new information technologies (the telegraph, photography, the cablegram, the linotype and the rotary press, the typewriter, the cash register, the wireless, and so forth) contribute to ideas of progress and/or entropy (or degeneration)? What sorts of economic, social, and legal impacts did these technologies have? What roles did they play in the expansion of empire, census-taking and statistics, and the formation of such characteristically Victorian institutions as museums and public libraries? How did they contribute to new patterns of detection, surveillance, and espionage? What roles did they play in representations of sensationalism, scandal, secrecy and encoding in literature and art? What were and are the uses of information theory in interpreting Victorian culture?
Send 7 copies of abstracts by 1 December 1995 to D. J. Trela, Executive Secretary, Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Box 288, Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605-1394. Phone inquiries: 312-241-3710.
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