Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel The Ethics and Aesthetics of Fictional Experience

• Main Author: Gao, Timothy (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2021
• Series: Humanities
• Subjects: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Literature: history & criticism; Victorian literature; theory of the novel
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Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel proposes a literary history of virtual reality, stemming from imaginary worlds created by nineteenth-century novelists such as Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and William Thackeray, providing innovative approaches to interpreting realist fiction and fictional...