Secondly, modern criticism argues that a tangible or palpable body is not adapted to a superterrestrial abode. But this is ignoring the fact that the stars and the planets are superterrestrial, and yet they are material.

Throughout the chapters that follow, I focus on the centrality and significance of contemporary media theory to understanding nineteenth-century British literary, scientific, and technological production and thus concentrate my attention on Romantic mediologies as opposed to inspecting perhaps more eminent or familiar critical or theoretical paradigms like Romantic book history and print culture, studies of Romantic reading publics, investigations of nineteenth-century periodical culture, or Tomanticism and the digital humanities.

Blessed are the poor in spirit.

I was schooled in a northwest suburb, where […] my Spanish and biculturalism were never an issue.