“In this light, a sprawling Victorian triple-decker looks like both a treatment of a world as information, and an affirmation that such a mass of information could be arranged and made meaningful while still remaining true. The multivolume novel with its intertwined plots; the historical romance; the detective story; the tightly drawn, consciously literary turn-of-the-century tale – these Victorian fictional forms and genres all have their own informational economies” (Menke 4).
Richard Menke in Telegraphic Realism: Victorian fiction and other information systems
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