Victorian media studies, history, and theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12880400 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy R Wong (0000-0003-1149-5208, Dominican University of California, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lic3.12438 |
| OpenAlex | W2794405878 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
This article gives an account of Victorian media studies as a sub‐field that emerged primarily from investigations of nineteenth‐century communication technologies and the century's accompanying preoccupations with transmission and the idea of in‐betweenness. Owing to unprecedented developments such as the rise of the universal postal system, telegraphy, phonography, photography, and mass print media, historicist inquiries have proven fruitful for the sub‐field. At the same time, continuities between how Victorians (such as the journalist and editor W. T. Stead) imagined communication's unifying reach across Britain and the globe and twentieth‐century media theory's critique of this same reach have ensured the sub‐field's grounding in theoretical engagements. The second part of the article considers how alternative frameworks for understanding media beyond communication (such as immersion, virtuality, and media archaeology) are currently redefining Victorian media studies in the twenty‐first century, continuing the sub‐field's robust dialectical engagements of history and theory
Art · Art history · Communication theory · Critical theory · Dialectic · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Globe · Historicism · Literature · Media studies · Media theory · New media · Political science · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
The Invention of Telepathy 1870-1901
How We Became Posthuman
Speaking into the Air
Remediation
What Is Media Archaeology
Framing the Victorians
Some Trick of the Moonlight”
Blinded by the type
Historicist Audio Forensics
Victorian Soundscapes
Understanding media
Postal Pleasures
Genesis of the Media Concept
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