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  1. Uchronie : Ungeschehene Geschichte von der Antike bis zum Steampunk
    Author: Dillinger, Johannes
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Schöningh, Paderborn

    Location:
    Stadtbücherei Gladbeck
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  2. Reading It Wrong
    An Alternative History of Early Eighteenth-Century Literature
    Author: Williams, Abigail
    Published: [2023]; ©2023
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    "How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation--and how this still shapes the way we read. Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has been everywhere evident but rarely talked... more

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    Location:
    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
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    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek
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    "How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation--and how this still shapes the way we read. Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has been everywhere evident but rarely talked about: the misunderstanding, muddle and confusion of readers of the past when they first met the uniquely elusive writings of the period. Abigail Williams uses the marginal marks and jottings of these readers to show that flawed interpretation has its own history--and its own important role to play--in understanding how, why and what we read. Focusing on the first half of the eighteenth century, the golden age of satire, Reading It Wrong tells how a combination of changing readerships and fantastically tricky literature created the perfect grounds for puzzlement and partial comprehension. Through the lens of a history of imperfect reading, we see that many of the period's major works--by writers including Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Mary Wortley Montagu, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift--both generated and depended upon widespread misreading. Being foxed by a satire, coded fiction or allegory was, like Wordle or the cryptic crossword, a form of entertainment, and perhaps a group sport. Rather than worrying that we don't have all the answers, we should instead recognize the cultural importance of not knowing"--

     
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  3. Creating Alternative History: The Online Poetic Responses to 9/11
    Author: OIeimy, Dina M.
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783659556562; 3659556564
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    9783659556562
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; Trauma; September 11; Cyberspace; hypertext; Hackers; Online Poetry; Offline American Mainstream Media; Alternative History; (VLB-WN)1740: Medien, Kommunikation
    Scope: Online-Ressource
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    Lizenzpflichtig. - Vom Verlag als Druckwerk on demand und/oder als E-Book angeboten
  4. Everfair
    Author: Shawl, Nisi
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  TOR, New York

    An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier"--Amazon.com Fabian Socialists from Great Britain... more

    Location:
    Anglistisches Seminar der Universität, Bibliothek
    Signature:
    U SHA IX 101
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    An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier"--Amazon.com Fabian Socialists from Great Britain join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo's "owner," King Leopold II. This land, named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary Utopia for native populations of the Congo as well as escaped slaves returning from America and other places where African natives were being mistreated. As the native populations adopt advances in steam technology as their own, an uneasy truce between the country's many factions leads to a revolt against Leopold's harsh reign

     
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