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As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality

As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality

Saler, Michael

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0195343174
ISBN13: 9780195343175
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 9 2012
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Many people throughout the world inhabit imaginary worlds communally and persistently, parsing Harry Potter and exploring online universes. These activities might seem irresponsibly escapist, but history tells another story. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, when Sherlock Holmes became the world's first virtual reality character, readers began to colonize imaginary worlds, debating serious issues and viewing reality in provisional, as if terms rather than through essentialist, just so perspectives. From Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and Tolkien's Middle-earth to the World of Warcraft and Second Life, As If provides a cultural history that reveals how we can remain enchanted but not deluded in an age where fantasy and reality increasingly intertwine.

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