Virtual play and the Victorian novel the ethics and aesthetics of fictional experience

Pondering 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gao, Timothy, 1993- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2021.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 127.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009645327806719
Table of Contents:
  • Virtual, paracosmic, fictional
  • Authorship, omnipotence, and Charlotte Bronte
  • Plotting, improvisation, and Anthony Trollope
  • Continuation, attachment, and William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Description, projection, and Charles.