Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect – Online Reading Communities of the New N…

Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital AffectOnline Reading Communities of the New Nigerian Novel\nAuthor(s): Hannah Pardey\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781836245568, 978-1836245568\nSynopsis\nAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.\n\n Middlebrow [url] and the Digital Affect investigates the material conditions of producing, distributing and consuming the postcolonial in the Internet era. Bridging the gap between postcolonial and middlebrow studies, the digital humanities and the history of emotions, it employs corpus linguistics software to scrutinise more than 15,000 online responses to 20 new Nigerian novels, unearthing the patterns of affect that characterise the contemporary digital milieu of literary transmission. Building on materialist, social constructionist and linguistic approaches to community and emotion, the stud.