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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455461003321

Autore

Clayton Jay <1951->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-280-50317-3

0-19-534773-0

1-60256-950-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Disciplina

823/.8

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Criticism - United States - History - 20th century

English literature - Appreciation - United States

Electronic books.

United States Civilization British influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: Dickens Browses the World Wide Web; One: The Past in the Future of Cultural Studies Crystal Palace to Millennium Dome; Two: The Voice in the Machine Hazlitt, Austen, Hardy, and James; Three: Undisciplined Cultures Peacock, Mary Somerville, and Mr. Pickwick; Four: Hacking the Nineteenth Century Babbage and Lovelace in The Difference Engine and Arcadia; Five: Concealed Circuits Frankenstein's Monster, Replicants, and Cyborgs; Six: Is Pip Postmodern? Or, Dickens at the Turn of the Millennium; Seven: Genome Time New Age Evolution, The Gold Bug Variations, and Gattaca

Eight: Convergence of the Two Cultures A Geek's Guide Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.