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Zusatztext Multiplying Worlds offers archival research on little-known popular entertainments and exhibits that may have been overlooked had Otto been confined to more strictly orthodox examples. Otto's work in innovative insofar as he invites readers to theoretically fuse Shelley's poetic theory with the aesthetic dynamics of contemporary digital artifacts. Informationen zum Autor Peter Otto is Professor of English Literary Studies at the University of Melbourne and a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He teaches and researches in the literatures and cultures of modernity, from Romanticism to the new media of today and, amongst numerous administrative roles, has been Associate Dean Information Technology and Multimedia for the Arts Faculty at Melbourne University. He has co-edited two collections of articles on Romanticism and authored two books on William Blake - Constructive Vision and Visionary Deconstruction (1991, Oxford UP) and Blake's Critique of Transcendence (2000, Oxford UP), and written numerous articles on Blake and on Romanticism. A microfilm collection of Gothic Texts (338 volumes), co-edited with Alison Milbank and Marie Mulvey-Roberts, and an accompanying Guide were published by Adam Matthew Publications in 2002-3. Klappentext This book argues that modern forms of virtual reality first appear in the urban/commercial milieu of London in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century. To establish this aetiology it maps the emergence of virtual realities in popular entertainment, Enlightenment schemes for managing the real, and Romantic literature and art. Zusammenfassung This book argues that modern forms of virtual reality first appear in the urban/commercial milieu of London in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century. To establish this aetiology it maps the emergence of virtual realities in popular entertainment, Enlightenment schemes for managing the real, and Romantic literature and art. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Romanticism, Modernity, and Virtual Reality Part One: From the Actual to the Virtual 1: The Panorama 2: The Panopticon 3: The Temple of Health and Hymen Part Two: From Representation Tto Poiesis 4: The Castle of Udolpho 5: Phantasmagoria 6: Fonthill Abbey 7: Pandemonium Part Three: Actuvirtuality and Virtuactuality 8: Jerusalem 9: Living Theatre 10: Heterocosm 11: Unpredictable Machines 12: Unpredictable Machines Works Cited Index ...
