Dis/Trusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Adam Kelly, Katerina Pavlidi, University College Dublin) Kelly, Adam (Associate Professor of English, University College Dublin) Pavlidi, Katerina (Postdoctoral Fellow

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How has the advent of digital technology impacted social and institutional trust? And how can imaginative literature help us to answer this question? Impelled by this dual inquiry, Dis/Trusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature addresses the intersections among digital studies, literary studies and studies of trust and distrust. Approaching the contemporary age through the longue durée of literary tradition, the volume is particularly concerned to identify the special affordances of literature for approaching problems of dis/trust in the digital world. Readers will be informed about topical subjects and urgent issues, including the impact of digital technologies on the (literary) public sphere, the status of the digital image and the threat of deepfakes, the emergence of cryptocurrencies and the digital economy, and the AI revolution. Each chapter approaches these topics and issues through the lens of literary texts while also considering how the ways we think about literature are changing in the digital age.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-31
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399551977

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Adam Kelly is Associate Professor of English at University College Dublin. He is the author of American Fiction in Transition (2013) and New Sincerity: American Fiction in the Neoliberal Age (2024). He has co-edited special issues of Comparative Literature Studies and Open Library of the Humanities, and his research has appeared in journals including American Literary History, Twentieth-Century Literature, Studies in the Novel, and Post45. He is Principal Investigator on the Research Ireland-funded project ‘Imaginative Literature and Social Trust, 1990-2025', leading a team of four scholars. Katerina Pavlidi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin, working on the Research Ireland-funded project ‘Imaginative Literature and Social Trust, 1990-2025.’ She specialises in late- and post-Soviet literature and culture with a focus on Russia. She is the author of the forthcoming book Vladimir Sorokin’s Body Aesthetics: Language, Materiality, Affect. Her research has appeared in Slavic Review and in the edited volume Soviet Materialities (2025). She is co-convener of the Soviet Temporalities Study Group which is supported by the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES).

Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Dis/Trusting the Digital World in Imaginative LiteratureAdam Kelly and Katerina PavlidiPart I. Dis/Trusting Authority and Digital Publics1.Trust and Authenticity in the Age of Infinite DataWilliam Davies2. Trust Me, I’m an Author: Literary Publicness in the Digital WorldDaniel South3. ‘A Cartesian Howl’: Trusting the Un/Reliable Human in Hari Kunzru’s Red PillRhona Jamieson4. Trust and Authorship in Brandon Sanderson’s Fiction and FandomCaitlin Smith & Trenton W. Ford Part II. Dis/Trusting Artificial Intelligence5. Edgar Allan Poe, the Mechanical Turk, and Technological PurismJeffrey M. Binder6. Long Live the New Flesh: AI Compliance and Trust in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the SunCurtis Runstedler7. In the Mirror of Artificial Intelligence: Sincerity, Literature, and Trustin Viktor Pelevin’s iPhuck 10Katerina PavlidiPart III. Dis/Trusting the Digital Economy8. ‘Too Paranoid for You?’: Suspicion, Trust, and (Post/Meta?)Modern Money inThomas Pynchon’s Bleeding EdgeRob Hawkes9. Trusting the Blockchain, Trusting the Novel in Jennifer Egan’sThe Candy HouseAdam Kelly10. Trusting in the Trustless: The Implications of NFT PoetryBryn TalesPart IV. Dis/Trusting the Digital Image11. Dis/Trusting Digital Photography in Contemporary Irish Women’s WritingHelen Penet12. Horrors of Digital Communication in Found-Footage Supernatural FilmsThomas BrittIndex