Virtual Victorians : networks, connections, technologies /

"Virtual Victorians offers new ways of thinking about issues of representation, technology, and media change in nineteenth-century literary culture, with specific deference to the emerging field of the digital humanities. The opening section, 'Navigating Networks,' deals with digital...

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Other Authors: Alfano, Veronica, 1983- (Editor), Stauffer, Andrew M., 1968- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of figures and tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Andrew Stauffer
  • Part 1. Navigating networks. How we search now: new and old ways of digging up Wolfe's 'Sir John Moore' / Catherine Robson
  • Viral textuality in nineteenth-century US newspaper exchanges / Ryan Cordell
  • Networking feminist literary history: recovering Eliza Meteyard's web / Susan Brown
  • Frances Trollope in a Victorian network of women's biographies / Alison Booth
  • Representing Leigh Hunt's autobiography / Michael E. Sinatra
  • Visualizing the cultural field of Victorian poetry / Natalie M. Houston
  • Part II. Virtual imaginings. Virtual Victorian poetry / Alison Chapman
  • Artificial environments, virtual realities, and the cultivation of propensity in the London Colosseum / Peter Otto
  • The imperial avatar in the imagine landcape: the virtual dynamics of the Prince of Wales's tour of India in 1875-76 / Ruth Brimacombe
  • Steampunk technologies of gender: Deryn Sharp's nonbinary gender identity in Scott Westerfield's Leviathan series / Lisa Hager
  • Strange fascination: Kipling, Benjamin, and early cinema / Christopher Keep
  • Select bibliography
  • Notes on contributors
  • Index.