Introduction: Doing Literature as (New) Media

Fictions of Mediation and Remediation, 1759-2000

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-67)

Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes (1880)

Stand on Zanzibar (1968)

If on a winter’s night a traveler (1981/79)

Neuromancer (1984)

House of Leaves (2000)

Methodology: Textual Analysis in the 21st Century

JPod (2006)

Generation A (2009)

Findings

(secondary orality; network culture; McLuhan’s global village; the novel and contemporary society)

(the a/temporalities of new media; attention; neuroplasticity; moral panics about new media)

(intertextuality; paratextuality; hypertext; the Google aura; reappraising realism)

Conclusions: Remediation and the Contemporary Novel