Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century

Colette Colligan and Margaret Linley are members of the English Department and Graduate Print Culture Program at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

• 1: Introduction; Section 1: Image; 2: The Wordsworths' Daffodils; 3: “So that the sense of touch may supply the want of sight”; 4: A Literature of its Own; 5: Kaleidoscopic Vision in Late Victorian Bohemia; Section 2: Sound; 6: A Modern Poetry of Sensation; 7: Visible Sound and Auditory Scenes; 8: Piano, Telegraph, Typewriter; Section 3: Touch; 9: Tactile Modernity; 10: Teleny, the Secret Touch, and the Media Geography of the Clandestine Book Trade (1880–1900); 11: Touching at a Distance; 12: Frankenstein Revisited

'A lively and wide-ranging collection that shows the striking variety of recent work in Victorian media studies.' Leah Price, Harvard University, USA 'A must for libraries developing collections in 19th-century literature and/or media studies...Recommended.' Choice '... it is undoubtedly the broad engagement with popular and avant-garde culture, and the inclusion of technologies of production, destruction, replication, communication, transmission and reception that make the book so useful as a resource for researchers approaching the topic from a range of literary and cultural contexts, as well as a starting point for further study in the field. Though wide-ranging, the readings are never lacking in interest, managing to convey insightful, sophisticated and convincing arguments in accessible prose.' British Society for Literature and Science