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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810345603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate Pub. Company, 2011

ISBN

1-315-59456-0

1-317-09865-X

1-317-09864-1

1-283-01555-2

9786613015556

1-4094-3113-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Collana

Nineteenth century series

Classificazione

18.05

Altri autori (Persone)

ColliganColette <1974->

LinleyMargaret

Disciplina

820.9/3552

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Mass media in literature

Technology in literature

Mass media and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Literature and technology - Great Britain - History - 19th century

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

section 1. Image -- section 2. Sound -- section 3. Touch.

Sommario/riassunto

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.