Are we there yet? : virtual travel and Victorian realism / Alison Byerly.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Byerly, Alison
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013
Subjects:	1800-1899 English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Realism in literature. Travel in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English fiction Realism in literature Travel in literature Literatur Realismus Virtuelle Realität Reise > Motiv Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

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.

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