Media, technology, and literature in the nineteenth century : image, sound, touch / [edited] by Colette Colligan and Margaret Linley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the nineteenth-century invention of media / Colette Colligan and Margaret Linley -- Image. The Wordsworths' Daffodils : on the page, upon the inward eye, in their media ecology / Richard Menke -- "So that the sense of touch may supply the want of sight" : blind reading and nineteenth-century British print culture / Vanessa Warne -- A literature of its own : time, space, and narrative mediations in Victorian photography / Daniel A. Novak -- Kaleidoscopic vision in late Victorian Bohemia : George Sims's social kaleidoscope / Helen Groth -- Sound. A modern poetry of sensation : three Christmas gift books and the legacy of Victorian material culture / Lorraine Janzen Kooistra -- Visible sound and auditory scenes : word, image, and music in Tennyson, D.G. Rossetti, and Morris / Linda Hughes -- Piano, telegraph, typewriter : listening to the language of touch / Ivan Raykoff -- Touch. Tactile modernity : on the rationalization of touch in the nineteenth century / David P. Parisi -- Teleny, the secret touch, and the media geography of the clandestine book trade (1880-1900) / Colette Colligan -- Touching at a distance : telegraphy, gender, and Henry James's In the cage / Christopher Keep -- Frankenstein revisited : life and afterlife around 1831 / Margaret Linley.

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Operating at the intersection where new technology meets literature, this collection discovers the relationship among image, sound, and touch in the long nineteenth century. The chapters speak to the special mixed-media properties of literature, while exploring the important interconnections of science, technology, and art at the historical moment when media was being theorized, debated, and scrutinized. Famous works such as Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" and Shelley's Frankenstein are discussed alongside a range of lesser-known literary, scientific, and pornographic writings

English.

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