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Book Charles Dickens in Cyberspace

Download or read book Charles Dickens in Cyberspace written by Jay Clayton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens in Cyberspace opens a window on a startling set of literary and scientific links between contemporary American culture and the nineteenth-century heritage it often repudiates. Surveying a wide range of novelists, scientists, filmmakers, and theorists from the past two centuries, Jay Clayton traces the concealed circuits that connect the telegraph with the Internet, Charles Babbage's Difference Engine with the digital computer, Frankenstein's monster with cyborgs and clones, and Dickens' life and fiction with all manner of contemporary popular culture--from comic books and advertising to recent novels and films. In the process, Clayton argues for two important principles: that postmodernism has a hidden or repressed connection with the nineteenth-century and that revealing those connections can aid in the development of a historical cultural studies. In Charles Dickens in Cyberspace nineteenth-century figures--Jane Austen, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Ada Lovelace, Joseph Paxton, Mary Shelley, and Mary Somerville--meet a lively group of counterparts from today: Andrea Barrett, Greg Bear, Peter Carey, Hélène Cixous, Alfonso Cuarón, William Gibson, Donna Haraway, David Lean, Richard Powers, Salman Rushdie, Ridley Scott, Susan Sontag, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, and Tom Stoppard. The juxtaposition of such a diverse cast of characters leads to a new way of understanding the "undisciplined culture" the two eras share, an understanding that can suggest ways to heal the gap that has long separated literature from science. Combining storytelling and scholarship, this engaging study demonstrates in its own practice the value of a self-reflective stance toward cultural history. Its personal voice, narrative strategies, multiple points of view, recursive loops, and irony emphasize the improvisational nature of the methods it employs. Yet its argument is serious and urgent: that the afterlife of the nineteenth century continues to shape the present in diverse and sometimes conflicting ways.

Book Charles Dickens and His Publishers

Download or read book Charles Dickens and His Publishers written by Robert L. Patten and published by Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In considering the whole range of Dickens's relations with his English and foreign publishers, Professor Patten relates the story of the novelist's social encounters, violent breaches, and uneasy alliances with John Macrone, Richard Bentley, Edward and Frederic Chapman, William Hall, Bernhard Tauchnitz, William Bradbury, F M Evans, and his American publishers in a compelling record of personal and professional associations. Private drama is subordinated to a narrative of 'a very special ckind of venture', serial publication. Drawing extensively on the hitherto unpublished accounts rendered to Dickens by Bradbury and Evans, and Chapman and Hall every six months from 1846, Robert Patten traces the fluctuating fortunes of each of the books, from Sketches by Boz to Edwin Drood. He shows how Dickens took advantage of developments in the law, popular literacy, and the new techniques of publishing through the periodical issue of his writings, and through four widely-circulated reprint series that vastly extended the market for his work. He identifies the sources and size of Dickens's income, comparing it to that of his contemporaries; and the costs and sales, the printing history, and the profits and losses on all books where Dickens shared copyright are set out in detail in four appendices. The study skillfully establishes that the conditions of publishing had much to do with the shape and success of Dickens's career"--Dust jacket.

Book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography  Pote Randles

Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Pote Randles written by Henry Colin Gray Matthew and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.

Book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography  Dewes Dryland

Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Dewes Dryland written by Henry Colin Gray Matthew and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.

Book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography  Haycock Hichens

Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Haycock Hichens written by Henry Colin Gray Matthew and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.

Book The Dickensian

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  • Release : 1991
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  • Pages : 712 pages

Download or read book The Dickensian written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism

Download or read book Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism written by Lynn M. Zott and published by Nineteenth-Century Literature. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents literary criticism on the works of nineteenth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Criticism includes early views from the author's lifetime as well as later views, including extensive collections of contemporary analysis.

Book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography  Grigg Hanboys

Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Grigg Hanboys written by Henry Colin Gray Matthew and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.

Book T   L   S  the Times Literary Supplement

Download or read book T L S the Times Literary Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dickens Studies

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  • Release : 1965
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  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Dickens Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Australian Literary Studies

Download or read book Australian Literary Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Handbook of Publishing

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Publishing written by Angus Phillips and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2019 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Publishing marks the coming of age of the scholarship in publishing studies with a comprehensive exploration of current research on subjects such as copyright, corporate social responsibility, globalizing markets, and changing technology that have transformed the industry in recent years.

Book The Times Index  January  December 2012

Download or read book The Times Index January December 2012 written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The World Republic of Letters

Download or read book The World Republic of Letters written by Pascale Casanova and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "world of letters" has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. In this book, Pascale Casanova shows us the state of world literature behind the stylistic refinements--a world of letters relatively independent from economic and political realms, and in which language systems, aesthetic orders, and genres struggle for dominance. Rejecting facile talk of globalization, with its suggestion of a happy literary "melting pot," Casanova exposes an emerging regime of inequality in the world of letters, where minor languages and literatures are subject to the invisible but implacable violence of their dominant counterparts. Inspired by the writings of Fernand Braudel and Pierre Bourdieu, this ambitious book develops the first systematic model for understanding the production, circulation, and valuing of literature worldwide. Casanova proposes a baseline from which we might measure the newness and modernity of the world of letters--the literary equivalent of the meridian at Greenwich. She argues for the importance of literary capital and its role in giving value and legitimacy to nations in their incessant struggle for international power. Within her overarching theory, Casanova locates three main periods in the genesis of world literature--Latin, French, and German--and closely examines three towering figures in the world republic of letters--Kafka, Joyce, and Faulkner. Her work provides a rich and surprising view of the political struggles of our modern world--one framed by sites of publication, circulation, translation, and efforts at literary annexation.

Book Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone

Download or read book Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: