Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture

Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture

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Charles Dickens in Cyberspace opens a window on a startling set of literary and scientific links between contemporary American culture and the nineteenth-century heritage it often repudiates. Surveying a wide range of novelists, scientists, filmmakers, and theorists from the past two centuries, Jay Clayton traces the concealed circuits that connect the telegraph with the I...more
Hardcover, 270 pages
Published August 7th 2003 by Oxford University Press (first published January 1st 2003)
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Catherine Siemann
Exemplary scholarship, rather misleading title -- the subtitle is really what you need to know. Makes interesting connections between the Victorian and the postmodern, between literary, popular and scientific culture.
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