Are We There Yet?

Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism

By: Alison Byerly

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Hardcover | 30 January 2013

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296 Pages

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Are We There Yet? Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism connects the Victorian fascination with "virtual travel" with the rise of realism in nineteenth-century fiction and twenty-first-century experiments in virtual reality. Even as the expansion of river and railway networks in the nineteenth century made travel easier than ever before, staying at home and fantasizing about travel turned into a favorite pastime. New ways of representing place--360-degree panoramas, foldout river maps, exhaustive railway guides--offered themselves as substitutes for actual travel. Thinking of these representations as a form of "virtual travel" reveals a surprising continuity between the Victorian fascination with imaginative dislocation and twenty-first -century efforts to use digital technology to expand the physical boundaries of the self.

Industry Reviews

"If the 'idea of narrative as a kind of journey is as old as literature, ' Alison Byerly attends to this intuitive truth in fresh ways, marking a departure from studies which take the process of 'getting there' for granted."
--Times Literary Supplement--Alicia Rix "Times Literary Supplement" (6/20/2013 12:00:00 AM)
"Are We There Yet? helps us to imagine some of the destinations we could reach by aligning old literary problems with new contexts as well as with our own new media forms."
--Studies in the Novel-- "Studies in the Novel"
"Byerly's study is ambitious, original, and insightful...and it is testament to its stimulating thesis and rich cultural and historical scope that it deserves to be taken up, elaborated, and questioned by scholars from within nineteenth-century literary studies and well beyond."
--Nineteenth-Century Literature-- "Nineteenth-Century Literature"

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