UID:
almafu_9958077627702883
Format:
1 online resource (281 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780190289607
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0190289600
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9780197723371
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0197723373
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9781280503177
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1280503173
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9780195347739
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0195347730
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9781602569508
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1602569509
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2003.
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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
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Eight: Convergence of the Two Cultures A Geek's Guide Notes; Works Cited; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195313260
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0195313267
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195160512
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0195160517
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195160512.001.0001
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