This is an impressive, highly nuanced and above all very helpful collection at the cutting edge of a slightly disoriented discipline in need of guidance. It addresses three related questions that are normally kept at a distance: How are scholars of literature to react to the changing media infrastructure in which texts are produced and circulated, which of the many media theories at our disposal are best suited for the task, and to what extent are these issues already at play in the texts themselves? Media Ecologies of Literature does what good collections are supposed to do--it provides surveys and samples, informed overviews, and revealing case studies. And it comes with an optimistic undertone: 'media' are not a threat to literature, they are a foundation and an opportunity.

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Professor of German and Nordic Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada

As one of its key departure points, Media Ecologies of Literature powerfully rejects recent critical and theoretical portrayals of Kittlerian media theory as putatively 'technodeterminist.' In doing so, this transformative edited collection squarely places media materialities and affordances back into conversations with textual, semiotic, and sociocultural concerns that, as this volume's authors persuasively reveal, have always already been productively conjoined as complex media ecologies. This book will be an important resource for media studies scholars and critics seeking to explore the inherent knottiness-natural and cultural, semiotic and material, subjective and objective-of myriad cultural mediations issuing from Friedrich Kittler's 'Discourse Network 1800' to our present.

Andrew Burkett, Associate Professor of English, Union College, USA, and author of Romantic Mediations: Media Theory and British Romanticism (2016)

What can a book do? What can literature or files? Here are 219 pages of precise, imaginative and probing forays into this surprisingly demanding question.

Matthew Fuller, Professor of Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK