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050	0	0	_aPR878.C73 _bG36 2021
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100	1		_aGao, Timothy, _d1993- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aVirtual play and the Victorian novel : _bthe ethics and aesthetics of fictional experience / _cTimothy Gao, University of Sydney.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2021.
300			_a1 online resource (vi, 222 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; _v127
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Apr 2021).
505	1		_aVirtual, paracosmic, fictional -- Authorship, omnipotence, and Charlotte Bronte -- Plotting, improvisation, and Anthony Trollope -- Continuation, attachment, and William Makepeace Thackeray -- Description, projection, and Charles.
506			_aOpen Access title.
520			_aPondering the town he had invented in his novels, Anthony Trollope had 'so realised the place, and the people, and the facts' of Barset that 'the pavement of the city ways are familiar to my footsteps'. After his novels end, William Thackeray wonders where his characters now live, and misses their conversation. How can we understand the novel as a form of artificial reality? Timothy Gao proposes a history of virtual realities, stemming from the imaginary worlds created by novelists like Trollope, Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, and Charles Dickens. Departing from established historical or didactic understandings of Victorian fiction, Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel recovers the period's fascination with imagined places, people, and facts. This text provides a short history of virtual experiences in literature, four studies of major novelists, and an innovative approach for scholars and students to interpret realist fictions and fictional realities from before the digital age. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y19th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aReality in literature.
650		0	_aImaginary places in literature.
650		0	_aCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781108837163
830		0	_aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; _v127.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108938518
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