Virtual Victorians : networks, connections, technologies

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Virtual Victorians : networks, connections, technologies

edited by Veronica Alfano and Andrew Stauffer

Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-270) and index

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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.

Table of Contents

  • 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

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