Multiplying Worlds: Romanticism, Modernity, and the Emergence of Virtual Reality

by Peter Otto

Multiplying Worlds argues that modern forms of virtual reality first appear in the urban/commercial milieu of London in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century (1780-1830). It develops a revisionary account of relations between romanticism and popular entertainments, 'high' and 'low' literature, and verbal and visual virtual realities during this period. The argument is divided into three parts. The first, 'From the Actual to the Virtual',...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199567670
• ISBN13: 9780199567676
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"