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Author Clayton, Jay, 1951-

Title Charles Dickens in cyberspace : the afterlife of the nineteenth century in postmodern culture / Jay Clayton.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index.
Contents The Past in the Future of Cultural Studies Crystal Palace to Millennium Dome -- The Voice in the Machine Hazlitt, Austen, Hardy, and James -- Undisciplined Cultures Peacock, Mary Somerville, and Mr. Pickwick -- Hacking the Nineteenth Century Babbage and Lovelace in The Difference Engine and Arcadia -- Concealed Circuits Frankenstein's Monster, Replicants, and Cyborgs -- Is Pip Postmodern? Or, Dickens at the Turn of the Millennium -- Genome Time New Age Evolution, The Gold Bug Variations, and Gattaca -- Convergence of the Two Cultures A Geek's Guide.
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Summary Charles Dickens in Cyberspace' surveys novelists, scientists, filmmakers, and theorists over two centuries, tracing circuits that connect Austen, Babbage, Darwin, Dickens, and Mary Shelley with their contemporary counterparts: Andrea Barrett, Peter Carey, Richard Powers, Salman Rushdie, Ridley Scott, Neal Stephenson, Tom Stoppard, and others.
Subject Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Appreciation -- United States.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. (OCoLC)fst00028294
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
English literature -- Appreciation -- United States.
United States -- Civilization -- British influences.
United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century.
Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
Literature and science -- United States.
Literature and science -- Great Britain.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Art appreciation. (OCoLC)fst00815447
Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
Civilization -- British influences. (OCoLC)fst01352339
Criticism. (OCoLC)fst00883735
English literature -- Appreciation. (OCoLC)fst00911993
English literature -- Theory, etc. (OCoLC)fst01930851
Literature and science. (OCoLC)fst01000093
Postmodernism (Literature) (OCoLC)fst01073181
Romanticism. (OCoLC)fst01100133
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Indexed Term Litteratur Engelsk, amerikansk litteratur.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Clayton, Jay, 1951- Charles Dickens in cyberspace. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003 0195160517 (DLC) 2002011755 (OCoLC)50270601
ISBN 9780195347739 (electronic bk.)
0195347730 (electronic bk.)
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