Virtual Victorians

Alison Booth, University of Virginia, USA Ruth Brimacombe, National Portrait Gallery, UK Susan Brown, University of Guelph, Canada Alison Chapman, University of Victoria, Canada Ryan Cordell, Northeastern University, USA Lisa Hager, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, USA Natalie M. Houston, University of Houston, USA Christopher Keep, University of Western Ontario, Canada Peter Otto, University of Melbourne, Australia Catherine Robson, New York University, USA Michael E. Sinatra, University of Montreal, Canada

Introduction; Andrew Stauffer PART I: NAVIGATING NETWORKS 1. How We Search Now: New and Old Ways of Digging Up Wolfe's "Sir John Moore"; Catherine Robson 2. Viral Textuality in Nineteenth-Century US Newspaper Exchanges; Ryan Cordell 3. Networking Feminist Literary History: Recovering Eliza Meteyard's Web; Susan Brown 4. Frances Trollope in a Victorian Network of Women's Biographies; Alison Booth 5. Representing Leigh Hunt's Autobiography; Michael E. Sinatra 6. Visualizing the Cultural Field of Victorian Poetry; Natalie M. Houston PART II: VIRTUAL IMAGININGS 7. Virtual Victorian Poetry; Alison Chapman 8. Artificial Environments, Virtual Realities, and the Cultivation of Propensity in the London Colosseum; Peter Otto 9. The Imperial Avatar in the Imagined Landscape: the Virtual Dynamics of the Prince of Wales's Tour of India in 1875-6; Ruth Brimacombe 10. Steampunk Technologies of Gender: Deryn Sharp's Non-Binary Gender Identity in Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan Series; Lisa Hager 11. Strange Fascination: Kipling, Benjamin, and Early Cinema; Christopher Keep