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Virtual play and the Victorian novel : = the ethics and aesthetics of fictional experience /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Virtual play and the Victorian novel :/ Timothy Gao, University of Sydney.
Reminder of title:	the ethics and aesthetics of fictional experience /
Author:	Gao, Timothy,
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 222 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Apr 2021).
Subject:	English fiction - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108938518
ISBN:	9781108938518 (ebook)

Virtual play and the Victorian novel : = the ethics and aesthetics of fictional experience /
Gao, Timothy,1993-

Virtual play and the Victorian novel :the ethics and aesthetics of fictional experience /Timothy Gao, University of Sydney. - 1 online resource (vi, 222 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;127. - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;80..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Apr 2021).

Virtual, paracosmic, fictional -- Authorship, omnipotence, and Charlotte Bronte -- Plotting, improvisation, and Anthony Trollope -- Continuation, attachment, and William Makepeace Thackeray -- Description, projection, and Charles.

Open Access title.

Pondering the town he had invented in his novels, Anthony Trollope had 'so realised the place, and the people, and the facts' of Barset that 'the pavement of the city ways are familiar to my footsteps'. After his novels end, William Thackeray wonders where his characters now live, and misses their conversation. How can we understand the novel as a form of artificial reality? Timothy Gao proposes a history of virtual realities, stemming from the imaginary worlds created by novelists like Trollope, Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, and Charles Dickens. Departing from established historical or didactic understandings of Victorian fiction, Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel recovers the period's fascination with imagined places, people, and facts. This text provides a short history of virtual experiences in literature, four studies of major novelists, and an innovative approach for scholars and students to interpret realist fictions and fictional realities from before the digital age. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

ISBN: 9781108938518 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

556935
English fiction
--History and criticism.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PR878.C73 / G36 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.809357

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