Publications by Megan Ward
Livingstone Online
An open-access digital archive of the Victorian explorer David Livingstone
Configurations, Dec 2012
this essay argues that Victorian realism pre-imagines the conditions of early artificial intellig... more this essay argues that Victorian realism pre-imagines the conditions of early artificial intelligence by reading Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford (1853) alongside key cybernetic texts. In doing so, it claims that Victorian realism influences twentieth-century definitions of what it means to be human-definitions that have sparked contemporary debate about information and embodiment. by examining realism's representation practices, information practices can be better understood, not just in the twenty-first century, but as part of an ongoing debate.
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 2011
"William Morris's Conditional Moment"
Ravon: Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, Feb 2009
Victorian Periodicals Review, 2008
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Publications by Megan Ward