Virtual Victorians
Networks, Connections, Technologies
Published on 20. May 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 290 pages
978-1-349-48530-7 (ISBN)
Description
Exploring how scholars use digital resources to reconstruct the 19th century, this volume probes key issues in the intersection of digital humanities and history. Part I examines the potential of online research tools for literary scholarship while Part II outlines a prehistory of digital virtuality by exploring specific Victorian cultural forms.
Reviews / Votes
"A timely and exciting volume, methodologically diverse and consistently thought-provoking." - Jason Rudy, Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland, USA
More details
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
IX, 290 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
371 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-48530-7 (9781349485307)
DOI
10.1057/9781137393296
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
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01/2016
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05/2015
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Persons
Alison Booth, University of Virginia, USA
Ruth Brimacombe, National Portrait Gallery, UK
Susan Brown, University of Guelph, Canada
Alison Chapman, University of Victoria, Canada
Ryan Cordell, Northeastern University, USA
Lisa Hager, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, USA
Natalie M. Houston, University of Houston, USA
Christopher Keep, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Peter Otto, University of Melbourne, Australia
Catherine Robson, New York University, USA
Michael E. Sinatra, University of Montreal, Canada
Content
Introduction; Andrew Stauffer PART I: NAVIGATING NETWORKS 1. How We Search Now: New and Old Ways of Digging Up Wolfe's "Sir John Moore"; Catherine Robson 2. Viral Textuality in Nineteenth-Century US Newspaper Exchanges; Ryan Cordell 3. Networking Feminist Literary History: Recovering Eliza Meteyard's Web; Susan Brown 4. Frances Trollope in a Victorian Network of Women's Biographies; Alison Booth 5. Representing Leigh Hunt's Autobiography; Michael E. Sinatra 6. Visualizing the Cultural Field of Victorian Poetry; Natalie M. Houston PART II: VIRTUAL IMAGININGS 7. Virtual Victorian Poetry; Alison Chapman 8. Artificial Environments, Virtual Realities, and the Cultivation of Propensity in the London Colosseum; Peter Otto 9. The Imperial Avatar in the Imagined Landscape: the Virtual Dynamics of the Prince of Wales's Tour of India in 1875-6; Ruth Brimacombe 10. Steampunk Technologies of Gender: Deryn Sharp's Non-Binary Gender Identity in Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan Series; Lisa Hager 11. Strange Fascination: Kipling, Benjamin, and Early Cinema; Christopher Keep