Virtual Victorians Networks, Connections, Technologies
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 I
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Vi rt ua l Vi c t o ri a n s Ne t w o rk s , C o n n e c t i o n s , Te c h n o l o g i e s
Edited by Ve r o n i c a A l f a n o a n d A n d r e w S t a u f f e r
virtual victorians
Copyright © Veronica Alfano and Andrew Stauffer, 2015. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-39820-8 All rights reserved. First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.
ISBN 978-1-349-48530-7 ISBN 978-1-137-39329-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137393296 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Virtual Victorians : networks, connections, technologies / edited by Veronica Alfano and Andrew Stauffer. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Humanities— Electronic information resources. 2. Humanities—Computer network Humanities—Study and teaching (Higher)—Data resources. 3. processing. 4. Humanities—Research—Data processing. 5. Virtual reality in higher education. 6. Literature and technology. 7. English literature—19th century—Study and teaching (Higher) 8. Great Britain—Intellectual life—19th century—Study and teaching 9. Great Britain—History—Victoria, 1837–1901— (Higher) Study and teaching (Higher) I. Alfano, Veronica, 1983– editor. II. Stauffer, Andrew M., 1968– editor. AZ195.V58 2015 025.06'0013—dc23 2014046289 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Amnet. First edition: May 2015 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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List of Figures and Tables
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Acknowledgmentsix Introduction Andrew Stauffer
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Part I Navigating Networks 1 How We Search Now: New and Old Ways of Digging Up Wolfe’s “Sir John Moore” Catherine Robson
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2 Viral Textuality in Nineteenth-Century US Newspaper Exchanges Ryan Cordell
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3 Networking Feminist Literary History: Recovering Eliza Meteyard’s Web Susan Brown
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4 Frances Trollope in a Victorian Network of Women’s Biographies Alison Booth
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5 Representing Leigh Hunt’s Autobiography107 Michael E. Sinatra 6 Visualizing the Cultural Field of Victorian Poetry Natalie M. Houston
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Part II Virtual Imaginings 7 Virtual Victorian Poetry Alison Chapman
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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 1875–76 Ruth Brimacombe 10 Steampunk Technologies of Gende
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