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Are We There Yet? : Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism /

An approach to the Victorian phenomenon of virtual travel and realism through the lens of contemporary conceptualizations of media and its effects.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Byerly, Alison
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Travel and the Art of the Real
  • Going Nowhere : Panoramic Travel. A Room with a View: The Victorian Panorama ; The Passing Scene : Moving Panoramas ; Wish You Were Here : Marketing the Experience ; Watching the Grand Tour ; Moving Pictures : The View from a Balloon ; Surveying the Scene : The Panoramic Gaze ; The Hypothetical Tourist
  • Total Immersion : Navigating the Thames. No Place Like Home : The Thames as England ; Journey to the Interior ; You Are Here : The Guided Tour ; Blogging the Trip : Three Men in a Boat ; Back to the Future : News from Nowhere ; River of Oblivion : The London Thames ; Change of Pace : The Rush toward Leisure
  • High-speed Connection : The Railway Network. Frankenstein's Monster : The Cyborg Engine ; Neither Here nor There : The Body in Transit ; User's Manuals : The Railway Guide ; Chat Rooms : The Social Space of Trains ; Game Over : The Railway Journey as Dream and Nightmare ; The Matrix : Railway Junctions as Non-Spaces ; World Wide Web : Information Networks in Sherlock Holmes and Dracula ; Moving through Media.