A history of imaginary worlds from the late nineteenth century to the present, from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to the virtual worlds of computer games.
A history of imaginary worlds from the late nineteenth century to the present, from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to the virtual worlds of computer games.
Michael Saler is Professor of History, University of California at Davis. He is the author of The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: 'Medieval Modernism' and the London Underground (OUP 1999) which received an Honorable Mention for the 2000 British Council Prize in the Humanities.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgements * Introduction * Part One: Contexts * Chapter One: Living In the Imagination * Chapter Two: Delight without Delusion: The New Romance, Spectacular Texts, and Public Spheres * Part Two: Cases * Chapter Three: Clap If You Believe in Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle and Animistic Reason * Chapter Four: From "Virtual Unreality" to Virtual Reality: H.P. Lovecraft and Public Spheres of the Imagination * Chapter Five: The Middle Positions of Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and Fictionalism * Envoi * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgements * Introduction * Part One: Contexts * Chapter One: Living In the Imagination * Chapter Two: Delight without Delusion: The New Romance, Spectacular Texts, and Public Spheres * Part Two: Cases * Chapter Three: Clap If You Believe in Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle and Animistic Reason * Chapter Four: From "Virtual Unreality" to Virtual Reality: H.P. Lovecraft and Public Spheres of the Imagination * Chapter Five: The Middle Positions of Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and Fictionalism * Envoi * Bibliography * Index
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