Charles Dickens in cyberspace : the afterlife of the nineteenth century in postmodern culture / / Jay Clayton
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| Autore: |
Clayton Jay <1951->
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| Titolo: |
Charles Dickens in cyberspace : the afterlife of the nineteenth century in postmodern culture / / Jay Clayton
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2003 |
| ©2003 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823/.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | English literature - 19th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
| Criticism - United States - History - 20th century | |
| English literature - Appreciation - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Civilization British influences |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Charles Dickens in cyberspace |
| ISBN: | 1-280-50317-3 |
| 0-19-534773-0 | |
| 1-60256-950-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910455461003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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