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.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2013
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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.