Virtual Victorians : networks connections technologies 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. 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 resources and asks how they are shaping the field of Victorian studies; the second Virtual Imaginings  considers Victorian technologies of virtual experience. As a whole this volume demonstrates that understanding the aspirations and anxieties that attended Victorian virtuality will illuminate contemporary scholarly practice and vice versa Provided by publisher