Media, technology, and literature in the nineteenth century: image, sound, touch

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Contents: Introduction: the 19th-century invention of media, Colette Colligan and Margaret Linley Section 1 Image: The Wordsworths' daffodils: on the page, upon the inward eye, in their media ecology, Richard Menke 'So that the sense of touch may supply the want of sight': blind reading and 19th-century British print culture, Vanessa Warne A literature of its own: time, space, and narrative mediations in Victorian photography, Daniel A. Novak Kaleidoscopic vision in late Victorian Bohemia: George Sims's social kaleidoscope, Helen Groth. Section 2 Sound: A modern poetry of sensation: three Christmas gift books and the legacy of Victorian material culture, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra Visible sound and auditory scenes: word, image, and music in Tennyson, D.G. Rossetti and Morris, Linda K. Hughes Piano, telegraph, typewriter: listening to the language of touch, Ivan Raykoff. Section 3 Touch: Tactile modernity: on the rationalization of touch in the 19th century, David P. Parisi Teleny, the secret touch, and the media geography of the clandestine book trade (1880a 1900), Colette Colligan Touching at a distance: telegraphy, gender, and Henry James's In the Cage, Christopher Keep Frankenstein revisited: life and afterlife around 1831, Margaret Linley Index.