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  • Simulating Antiquity in Boys' Adventure Fiction

    Maps and Ink Stains

    by Thomas Vranken ...
    Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
    A genre that glorifies brutish masculinity and late Victorian imperialism, boys' 'lost world' adventure fiction has traditionally been studied for its politically problematic content. While attuned to these concerns, this Element approaches the genre from a different angle, viewing adventure fiction as not just a catalogue of texts but a corpus of books. Examining early editions of Treasure Island ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing

    Beyond Serialization

    by Thomas Lloyd Vranken ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    As the nineteenth century came to an end, a number of voices within the British and American magazine industries pushed back against serialisation as the dominant publication mode, experimenting instead with less conventional magazine formats. This book explores these formats, focusing (in particular) on the ways in which the periodical press first published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Victorian Automata

    Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Suzy Anger, Thomas Vranken ...
    The relationship between lifelike machines and mechanistic human behaviour provoked both fascination and anxiety in Victorian culture. This collection is the first to examine the widespread cultural interest in automata – both human and mechanical – in the nineteenth century. It was in the Victorian period that industrialization first met information technology, and that theories of physical and ... Read more

    $112.39 USD