Inge van de Ven is Assistant Professor of Online Culture in the Department of Culture Studies at Tilburg School of Humanities & Digital Sciences. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Utrecht University, where she also completed postdoctoral research on creativity in education. She was a 2018-'19 Core Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest.

• Introduction Chapter one Monumental Novels from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century Chapter two A Sublime of Data: Information Overload between the Covers Chapter three Narratives of the Database: Between Counting and Recounting Chapter four Quantified Selves: Monumental Autobiography in the Facebook Age Chapter five Growing Women, Shrinking Men: Gender, Scale, Materiality Chapter six Can the Novel Trump the TV Series? Competing Media in the Post-television Stage Chapter seven The Book-as-World-as-Book: Analog Novels and Geographical Information Systems Chapter eight Slow Reading, Materiality, and Mediacy: How Books Withstand Real-time and Binging Conclusion Acknowledgements Bibliography Index

Inge van de Ven is Assistant Professor of Online Culture in the Department of Culture Studies at Tilburg School of Humanities & Digital Sciences. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Utrecht University, where she also completed postdoctoral research on creativity in education. She was a 2018-'19 Core Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest.

• Introduction Chapter one Monumental Novels from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century Chapter two A Sublime of Data: Information Overload between the Covers Chapter three Narratives of the Database: Between Counting and Recounting Chapter four Quantified Selves: Monumental Autobiography in the Facebook Age Chapter five Growing Women, Shrinking Men: Gender, Scale, Materiality Chapter six Can the Novel Trump the TV Series? Competing Media in the Post-television Stage Chapter seven The Book-as-World-as-Book: Analog Novels and Geographical Information Systems Chapter eight Slow Reading, Materiality, and Mediacy: How Books Withstand Real-time and Binging Conclusion Acknowledgements Bibliography Index

Inge van de Ven is Assistant Professor of Online Culture in the Department of Culture Studies at Tilburg School of Humanities & Digital Sciences. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Utrecht University, where she also completed postdoctoral research on creativity in education. She was a 2018-'19 Core Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest.

• Introduction Chapter one Monumental Novels from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century Chapter two A Sublime of Data: Information Overload between the Covers Chapter three Narratives of the Database: Between Counting and Recounting Chapter four Quantified Selves: Monumental Autobiography in the Facebook Age Chapter five Growing Women, Shrinking Men: Gender, Scale, Materiality Chapter six Can the Novel Trump the TV Series? Competing Media in the Post-television Stage Chapter seven The Book-as-World-as-Book: Analog Novels and Geographical Information Systems Chapter eight Slow Reading, Materiality, and Mediacy: How Books Withstand Real-time and Binging Conclusion Acknowledgements Bibliography Index