Imperial Media: Colonial Networks and Information Technologies in the British Literary Imagination, 1857-1918 brings together two of the most dynamic and productive approaches to the study of nineteenth-century literature in recent years--media studies and colonial studies--to illuminate the rich and enduring symbiosis that developed between information technologies and Empire. Over a century before Facebook and the iPhone, Britons relied on the electric media of their day for information about their global empire--but those media, which during Victoria's reign stretched out its...