Are We There Yet?: Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Byerly, Alison

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ISBN 10: 0472071866 ISBN 13: 9780472071869

Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2012

Riassunto

Are We There Yet? Virtual Travel and Victorian Realismconnects the Victorian fascination with "virtual travel" with the rise of realism in nineteenth-century fiction and twenty-first-century experiments in virtual reality. Even as the expansion of river and railway networks in the nineteenth century made travel easier than ever before, staying at home and fantasizing about travel turned into a favorite pastime. New ways of representing place—360-degree panoramas, foldout river maps, exhaustive railway guides—offered themselves as substitutes for actual travel. Thinking of these representations as a form of "virtual travel" reveals a surprising continuity between the Victorian fascination with imaginative dislocation and twenty-first -century efforts to use digital technology to expand the physical boundaries of the self.

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L'autore:

Alison Byerly is President of Lafayette College.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0472071866
• ISBN 13: 9780472071869
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 254