Charles Dickens in Cyberspace

Charles Dickens in Cyberspace explores links between postmodernism and the nineteenth-century heritage it so often repudiates. Surveying novelists, scientists, filmmakers, and theorists from the past two centuries, Jay Clayton traces circuits that connect Austen, Babbage, Darwin, Dickens, and Mary Shelley with their contemporary counterparts: Andrea Barrett, Peter Carey, Richard Powers, Salman Rushdie, Ridley Scott, Neal Stephenson, Tom Stoppard, and others.