Virtual Victorians [electronic resource] : Networks, Connections, Technologies /
Alfano, Veronica.author.
Stauffer, Andrew.author.
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.
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""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I Navigating Networks""; ""1 How We Search Now: New  and Old Ways of Digging Up Wolfe?s ?Sir John Moore?""; ""Notes""; ""2 Viral Textuality in  Nineteenth-Century US  Newspaper Exchanges""; ""Introduction""; ""Defining Virality""; ""Going Viral in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""3 Networking Feminist Literary History: Recovering Eliza Meteyard?s Web""; ""Meteyard?s Web of Work""; ""Semantic Webs""; ""Notes""
""4 Frances Trollope in a Victorian Network of Women?s Biographies""""CBW, Some Definitions, and Some Indeterminacies""; ""Trollope in Victorian Networks of Women""; ""Foreshortened Lives, Sublime Networks""; ""Notes""; ""5 Representing Leigh Hunt?s Autobiography""; ""Notes""; ""6 Visualizing the Cultural Field  of Victorian Poetry""; ""The Cultural Field""; ""Victorian Data""; ""Exploratory Data Analysis""; ""From the List to the Field""; ""The Field of Victorian Poetry in Library Records""; ""The Field of Victorian Poetry Anthologies""; ""Notes""; ""Part II Virtual Imaginings""
""7 Virtual Victorian Poetry""""Defining Victorian Poetry""; ""Notes""; ""8 Artificial Environments, Virtual Realities, and the Cultivation of Propensity in the London Colosseum""; ""Natural Object and Panoramic Affect""; ""Conjuring the Real""; ""Inside the Colosseum?s Second Worlds""; ""Notes""; ""9 The Imperial Avatar in the Imagined Landscape: The Virtual Dynamics of the Prince of Wales?s Tour of India in 1875?76""; ""Notes""; ""10 Steampunk Technologies of Gender: Deryn Sharp?s Nonbinary Gender Identity in Scott Westerfeld?s Leviathan Series""; ""Notes""
""11 Strange Fascination: Kipling, Benjamin, and Early Cinema""""The Arrival of the Mail Train""; ""A Tiny Spark of Contingency""; ""The Petrified Forest""; ""Notes""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
British literature.
History, Modern.
Technology—History.
Communication.
History.
Literature—Philosophy.
British and Irish Literature.
Modern History.
History of Technology.
Media Studies.
History of Science.
Literary Theory.