Are We There Yet?: Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism
- ISBN-10
- 0472051865
- ISBN-13
- 9780472051861
- Series
- Are We There Yet?
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 254
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Author
- Alison Byerly
Description
An unusual approach to the Victorian phenomenon of virtual travel and realism through the lens of contemporary conceptualizations of media and its effects
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- 2012-12-26
- 254 pages
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