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Author Clayton, Jay, 1951-

Title Charles Dickens in cyberspace : the afterlife of the nineteenth century in postmodern culture / Jay Clayton.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index.
Contents Past in the Future of Cultural Studies Crystal Palace to Millennium Dome -- Voice in the Machine Hazlitt, Austen, Hardy, and James -- Undisciplined Cultures Peacock, Mary Somerville, and Mr. Pickwick -- Hacking the Nineteenth Century Babbage and Lovelace in The Difference Engine and Arcadia -- Concealed Circuits Frankenstein's Monster, Replicants, and Cyborgs -- Is Pip Postmodern? Or, Dickens at the Turn of the Millennium -- Genome Time New Age Evolution, The Gold Bug Variations, and Gattaca -- Convergence of the Two Cultures A Geek's Guide.
Summary Charles Dickens in Cyberspace' surveys novelists, scientists, filmmakers, and theorists over two centuries, tracing circuits that connect Austen, Babbage, Darwin, Dickens, and Mary Shelley with their contemporary counterparts: Andrea Barrett, Peter Carey, Richard Powers, Salman Rushdie, Ridley Scott, Neal Stephenson, Tom Stoppard, and others.
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Subject Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Appreciation -- United States.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
United States.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
English literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Criticism.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject English literature -- Appreciation -- United States.
English literature -- Appreciation.
United States -- Civilization -- British influences.
Civilization.
United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century.
Great Britain.
Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Literature and science -- United States.
Literature and science.
Literature and science -- Great Britain.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Romanticism.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Indexed Term Litteratur Engelsk, amerikansk litteratur.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Clayton, Jay, 1951- Charles Dickens in cyberspace. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003 0195160517 (DLC) 2002011755 (OCoLC)50270601
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