Exploring how scholars use digital resources to reconstruct the 19th century, this volume probes key issues in the intersection of digital humanities and history. Part I examines the potential of online research tools for literary scholarship while Part II outlines a prehistory of digital virtuality by exploring specific Victorian cultural forms.
Alison Booth, University of Virginia, USARuth Brimacombe, National Portrait Gallery, UKSusan Brown, University of Guelph, CanadaAlison Chapman, University of Victoria, CanadaRyan Cordell, Northeastern University, USALisa Hager, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, USANatalie M. Houston, University of Houston, USAChristopher Keep, University of Western Ontario, CanadaPeter Otto, University of Melbourne, AustraliaCatherine Robson, New York University, USAMichael E. Sinatra, University of Montreal, Canada
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"A timely and exciting volume, methodologically diverse and consistently thought-provoking." - Jason Rudy, Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland, USA
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Introduction; Andrew Stauffer PART I: NAVIGATING NETWORKS 1. How We Search Now: New and Old Ways of Digging Up Wolfe's "Sir John Moore"; Catherine Robson 2. Viral Textuality in Nineteenth-Century US Newspaper Exchanges; Ryan Cordell 3. Networking Feminist Literary History: Recovering Eliza Meteyard's Web; Susan Brown 4. Frances Trollope in a Victorian Network of Women's Biographies; Alison Booth 5. Representing Leigh Hunt's Autobiography; Michael E. Sinatra 6. Visualizing the Cultural Field of Victorian Poetry; Natalie M. Houston PART II: VIRTUAL IMAGININGS 7. Virtual Victorian Poetry; Alison Chapman 8. Artificial Environments, Virtual Realities, and the Cultivation of Propensity in the London Colosseum; Peter Otto 9. The Imperial Avatar in the Imagined Landscape: the Virtual Dynamics of the Prince of Wales's Tour of India in 1875-6; Ruth Brimacombe 10. Steampunk Technologies of Gender: Deryn Sharp's Non-Binary Gender Identity in Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan Series; Lisa Hager 11. Strange Fascination: Kipling, Benjamin, and Early Cinema; Christopher Keep
