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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Peter Otto (Professor of English Literary Studies, University of Melbourne)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.80cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9780199567676ISBN 10: 0199567670 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 17 February 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Romanticism, Modernity, and Virtual Reality Part One: From the Actual to the Virtual 1: The Panorama 2: The Panopticon 3: The Temple of Health and Hymen Part Two: From Representation Tto Poiesis 4: The Castle of Udolpho 5: Phantasmagoria 6: Fonthill Abbey 7: Pandemonium Part Three: Actuvirtuality and Virtuactuality 8: Jerusalem 9: Living Theatre 10: Heterocosm 11: Unpredictable Machines 12: Unpredictable Machines Works Cited IndexReviewsProvides a fresh intervention into the well-traveled ground of the relationship between self and mind in British Romanticism...Multiplying Worlds will be valuable not only to digital humanists and others interested in the genealogy of our increasingly virtual lives, but also to our understanding of the intellectual and cultural history of the Romantic period. --Studies in Romanticism Multiplying Worlds offers archival research on little-known popular entertainments and exhibits that may have been overlooked had Otto been confined to more strictly orthodox examples. Otto's work in innovative insofar as he invites readers to theoretically fuse Shelley's poetic theory with the aesthetic dynamics of contemporary digital artifacts. * J. Jennifer Jones, University of Rhode Island * Author InformationPeter Otto is Professor of English Literary Studies at the University of Melbourne and a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He teaches and researches in the literatures and cultures of modernity, from Romanticism to the new media of today and, amongst numerous administrative roles, has been Associate Dean Information Technology and Multimedia for the Arts Faculty at Melbourne University. He has co-edited two collections of articles on Romanticism and authored two books on William Blake - Constructive Vision and Visionary Deconstruction (1991, Oxford UP) and Blake's Critique of Transcendence (2000, Oxford UP), and written numerous articles on Blake and on Romanticism. A microfilm collection of Gothic Texts (338 volumes), co-edited with Alison Milbank and Marie Mulvey-Roberts, and an accompanying Guide were published by Adam Matthew Publications in 2002-3. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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