Charles Dickens in cyberspace : the afterlife of the nineteenth century in postmodern culture / / Jay Clayton [[electronic resource]]
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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 [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
| 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 | |
| Postmodernism (Literature) - United States | |
| Literature and science - United States | |
| Literature and science - Great Britain | |
| Romanticism - Great Britain | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Civilization British influences |
| United States Civilization 20th century | |
| Great Britain Civilization 19th century | |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2003. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) 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: | This text explores links between postmodernism and the 19th century heritage it so often repudiates. Jay Clayton traces circuits that connect Austen, Babbage, Darwin, Dickens and Mary Shelley with their contemporary counterparts: Salman Rushdie, Ridley Scott, Tom Stoppard and others. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Charles Dickens in cyberspace |
| ISBN: | 0-19-772337-3 |
| 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.: | 9910823643303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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