Are We There Yet? - Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism

Informationen zum Autor Alison Byerly is President of Lafayette College. Klappentext Connects the Victorian fascination with ""virtual travel"" with the rise of realism in 19th-century fiction and 21st-century experiments in virtual reality. Even as the expansion of river and railway networks in the 19th century made travel easier than ever before! staying at home and fantasizing about travel turned into a favourite pastime. New ways of representing place - 360-degree panoramas! foldout river maps! exhaustive railway guides—offered themselves as substitutes for actual travel. Zusammenfassung An unusual approach to the Victorian phenomenon of virtual travel and realism through the lens of contemporary conceptualizations of media and its effects

Product details

• Authors: Alison Byerly
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2012
• EAN: 9780472071869
• ISBN: 978-0-472-07186-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic