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Charles Dickens in cyberspace : the afterlife of the nineteenth century in postmodern culture / Jay Clayton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clayton, Jay, 1951- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Appreciation--United States.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- English literature.
- Criticism--United States--History--20th century.
- Criticism.
- English literature--Appreciation--United States.
- Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Literature and science--United States.
- Literature and science.
- Literature and science--Great Britain.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- United States--Civilization--British influences.
- United States.
- United States--Civilization--20th century.
- Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Local Subjects:
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Appreciation--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text explores links between postmodernism and the 19th century heritage it so often repudiates. Jay Clayton traces circuits that connect Austen, Babbage, Darwin, Dickens and Mary Shelley with their contemporary counterparts: Salman Rushdie, Ridley Scott, Tom Stoppard and others.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: Dickens Browses the World Wide Web; One: The Past in the Future of Cultural Studies Crystal Palace to Millennium Dome; Two: The Voice in the Machine Hazlitt, Austen, Hardy, and James; Three: Undisciplined Cultures Peacock, Mary Somerville, and Mr. Pickwick; Four: Hacking the Nineteenth Century Babbage and Lovelace in The Difference Engine and Arcadia; Five: Concealed Circuits Frankenstein's Monster, Replicants, and Cyborgs; Six: Is Pip Postmodern? Or, Dickens at the Turn of the Millennium; Seven: Genome Time New Age Evolution, The Gold Bug Variations, and Gattaca
- Eight: Convergence of the Two Cultures A Geek's Guide Notes; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 9780190289607
- 0190289600
- 9780197723371
- 0197723373
- 9781280503177
- 1280503173
- 9780195347739
- 0195347730
- 9781602569508
- 1602569509
- OCLC:
- 559851197
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