Abstract

Abstract: What can a study of "data" contribute to our understanding of early twentieth-century literary culture and how can data aesthetics help to explicate the seemingly obtuse style of writer Ronald Firbank? This article addresses both of these questions by considering the forms and function of data in Firbank's writings. It argues that Firbank's characteristic camp and elusive style can be understood as an examination of the information economy in which he was living, an economy that traded in flattened forms and decontextualized data.

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