Are We There Yet?: Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism by Alison Byerly

By Alison Byerly

Are We There but? digital commute and Victorian Realism connects the Victorian fascination with "virtual shuttle" with the increase of realism in nineteenth-century fiction and twenty-first-century experiments in digital truth. while the growth of river and railway networks within the 19th century made shuttle more uncomplicated than ever sooner than, staying at domestic and fantasizing approximately shuttle become a favourite hobby. New methods of representing place—360-degree panoramas, foldout river maps, exhaustive railway guides—offered themselves as substitutes for real go back and forth. taking into consideration those representations as a sort of "virtual shuttle" unearths a stunning continuity among the Victorian fascination with ingenious dislocation and twenty-first -century efforts to exploit electronic know-how to extend the actual barriers of the self.

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