HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century

Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making.

An engaging exploration of the mutually productive interaction of literature and energy science in the Victorian era, as seen in Tennyson, Dickens, Stoker, and others.

The essays in this book examine how the West modernized and what that modernization meant to human society, particularly in Western Europe and the United States. Within that frame are several distinct...