Mapping Fictional Travels across the World of Literature
Mapping Fictional Travels across the World of Literature
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Explores the way that numbers interact with literary forms in the nineteenth century. The close literary readings ask why some writers engage particularly with numbers; what kinds of work numbers perform for writers and readers when they are encountered within a text; and how numbers relate to the formal elements of poetry and fiction.
The book provides a major insight into the Victorian age of illustration. The presence of images on the page (from newspapers and magazines to advertisements) was said to impact on whether readers created 'images' in their mind as they read.
A volume on the early writings of the science fiction author Octavia E. Butler that offers an illustrated background of her juvenilia and extraordinary literary career. Professor Yang recounts her own memories of childhood in which she, like Octavia, found sanctuary in the public library.
