Are We There Yet? : Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism.
Title:
Are We There Yet? : Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism.
Author:
Byerly, Alison.
ISBN:
9780472028764
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (265 pages)
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 -- 4. Blogging the Trip: Three Men in a Boat -- 5. 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 -- 7. World Wide Web: Information Networks in Sherlock Holmes and Dracula -- 8. Moving through Media -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
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:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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