Timothy Gao is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He previously lectured at the University of Oxford, and his work has been published in Victorian Network and Victorian Literature and Culture.
Introduction. How to Play the Victorian Novel; Chapter Overview; 1. Virtual
Paracosmic
Fictional; 2. Authorship
Omnipotence
and Charlotte Brontë; 3. Plotting
Improvisation
and Anthony Trollope; 4. Continuation
Attachment
and William Makepeace Thackeray; 5. Description
Projection
and Charles Dickens; Conclusion. Approaching Virtuality.