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Title Media, technology, and literature in the nineteenth century : image, sound, touch / [edited] by Colette Colligan and Margaret Linley.

Publication Info. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 302 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The nineteenth century series
Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : the nineteenth-century invention of media / Colette Colligan and Margaret Linley -- Image. The Wordsworths' Daffodils : on the page, upon the inward eye, in their media ecology / Richard Menke -- "So that the sense of touch may supply the want of sight" : blind reading and nineteenth-century British print culture / Vanessa Warne -- A literature of its own : time, space, and narrative mediations in Victorian photography / Daniel A. Novak -- Kaleidoscopic vision in late Victorian Bohemia : George Sims's social kaleidoscope / Helen Groth -- Sound. A modern poetry of sensation : three Christmas gift books and the legacy of Victorian material culture / Lorraine Janzen Kooistra -- Visible sound and auditory scenes : word, image, and music in Tennyson, D.G. Rossetti, and Morris / Linda Hughes -- Piano, telegraph, typewriter : listening to the language of touch / Ivan Raykoff -- Touch. Tactile modernity : on the rationalization of touch in the nineteenth century / David P. Parisi -- Teleny, the secret touch, and the media geography of the clandestine book trade (1880-1900) / Colette Colligan -- Touching at a distance : telegraphy, gender, and Henry James's In the cage / Christopher Keep -- Frankenstein revisited : life and afterlife around 1831 / Margaret Linley.
Summary Operating at the intersection where new technology meets literature, this collection discovers the relationship among image, sound, and touch in the long nineteenth century. The chapters speak to the special mixed-media properties of literature, while exploring the important interconnections of science, technology, and art at the historical moment when media was being theorized, debated, and scrutinized. Famous works such as Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" and Shelley's Frankenstein are discussed alongside a range of lesser-known literary, scientific, and pornographic writings.
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Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Mass media in literature.
Mass media in literature.
Technology in literature.
Technology in literature.
Mass media and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Mass media and literature.
Great Britain.
History.
Literature and technology -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and technology.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Added Author Colligan, Colette, 1974-
Linley, Margaret.
Other Form: Print version: Media, technology, and literature in the nineteenth century. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2011 9781409400097 (DLC) 2010036647 (OCoLC)664258406
ISBN 9781409431138 (electronic book)
1409431134 (electronic book)
9781409400097
1409400093