This landmark study explores replication as a nineteenth-century phenomenon. Replication, defined by Victorian artists as subsequent versions of a first version, similar but changed, occurred in art, literature, the press, merchandising, and historical reproductions in architecture and museums.

The first study of nineteenth-century replication across art, literature, science, social science and the humanities This landmark study explores replication as a nineteenth-century phenomenon. Replication, defined by Victorian artists as subsequent versions of a first version, similar but changed, occurred in art, literature, the press, merchandising and historical reproductions in architecture and museums. Replication also shaped scientific concepts in biology, geology and scientific practices in laboratories that repeated experiments as part of the scientific method. Fourteen case studies map a range of nineteenth-century replication practices and associations across art, literature, science, media and material culture. While replication stirred imaginations as well as anxieties over the industrialisation that produced a modern mass culture, Replication in the Long Nineteenth Century suggests, nonetheless, that this phenomenon is a forerunner of our contemporary digital culture. Julie Codell is Professor of Art History at Arizona State University Linda K. Hughes is Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University Cover image: Christabel Pankhurst sitting to John Tussaud for her model in wax (c) PA/PA Archive/PA Images Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-2484-4 Barcode