Clara Zarza, 'Wonder and Desire in the Museum: Immersive Devices from Akeley’s Early Habitat Dioramas to Eliasson’s Contemporary Art Installations'

Rachel Ozerkevich, Cameras, Handwork, and Bodily Traces: Overpainted Photomechanical Images of Athletes and their Terrains

Megan Nash,'"No photons to capture": Electric Lighting and Visual Culture at Binoomea (Jenolan Caves)'

Kelly Presutti, '"Brutal magic": Staging Human-Environmental Relations in the Anthropocene'

Robert Thomas Kilroy,'Tailoring Authenticity: A Media Post-Mortem of the Daguerreotype through the NFT'

Alaz Okudan, 'Camera Archaeologia: A Media Archaeological Investigation into the Contemporary Use of Nineteenth-Century Photographic Processes'

Amrita Biswas and Johanna Laub, 'Reconstructing Nineteenth-Century Frankfurt: Time Travel in TimeRide and the Neue Altstadt'

Rachel Lee Hutcheson, 'On Screen and in Living Colours: Vision and Early Colour Photography'

Heidi Aronson Kolk, 'Picturing Hart Island: Negative Heritage Reclaimed'

Tina Wasserman, 'Cinema Redivivus: Bill Morrison and Early Cinema’s Spectral Return'

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Patricia Smyth &Gülru Çakmak, 'Nineteenth-Century Technologies, Contemporary Stakes'

Kris Belden-Adams,'Plaster Peaks, Photography, and the Spread of Scientific Knowledge: The Tale of Tenerife'

Melody Davis, 'Behind the Scenes with Franklin George Weller: The Creation of Stereoscopic Tableaux'

The research we share here participates in ongoing efforts to redefine the parameters of nineteenth-century studies — in the context of the four nations and across the globe — and seeks to encourage further comparative research into the intertwined histories of literature and language.

Contributors present close analyses of texts that work to codify and disrupt linguistic hierarchies; that interrogate evolutionary narratives of linguistic development (and decline); and that shed light on the creative possibilities of engagement with linguistic plurality in its richly varied forms.

It also considers literature’s role in campaigns to preserve and revive linguistic diversity.

11 new essays explore how literature across the long C19th imagined and presented relations between the languages of Britain and Ireland, and how it questioned, reflected, and contributed to the sociolinguistic developments that marginalized (and continue to marginalize) languages other than English

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