| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 254 pages) : illustrations |
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data file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-244) and index. |
| Contents |
Contents -- Introduction: Travel and the Art of the Real -- I. Going Nowhere: Panoramic Travel -- 1. A Room with a View: The Victorian Panorama -- 2. The Passing Scene: Moving Panoramas -- 3. Wish You Were Here: Marketing the Experience -- 4. Watching the Grand Tour -- 5. Moving Pictures: The View from a Balloon -- 6. Surveying the Scene: The Panoramic Gaze -- 7. The Hypothetical Tourist -- II. Total Immersion: Navigating the Thames -- 1. No Place Like Home: The Thames as England -- 2. Journey to the Interior -- 3. You Are Here: The Guided Tour |
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4. Blogging the Trip: Three Men in a Boat5. Back to the Future: News from Nowhere -- 6. River of Oblivion: The London Thames -- 7. Change of Pace: The Rush toward Leisure -- III. High-speed Connection: The Railway Network -- 1. Frankenstein�s Monster: The Cyborg Engine -- 2. Neither Here nor There: The Body in Transit -- 3. User�s Manuals: The Railway Guide -- 4. Chat Rooms: The Social Space of Trains -- 5. Game Over: The Railway Journey as Dream and Nightmare -- 6. The Matrix: Railway Junctions as Non-Spaces |
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7. World Wide Web: Information Networks in Sherlock Holmes and Dracula8. Moving through Media -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
An unusual approach to the Victorian phenomenon of virtual travel and realism through the lens of contemporary conceptualizations of media and its effects. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Realism in literature.
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Realism in literature. |
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Travel in literature.
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Travel in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780472071869 (DLC) 2012033642 |
| ISBN |
9780472028764 (electronic book) |
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0472028766 (electronic book) |
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9780472071869 |
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0472071866 |
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9780472051861 |
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0472051865 |
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9781283941679 |
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1283941678 |
| Standard No. |
ebc3415113 |
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