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SUMMARY:Mermaids\, Cables and the Deep Sea: the telegraphic imagery in the
  19th century - Clare Pettitt\, Professor of Victorian Literature and Cult
 ure\, Kings College London
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CONTACT:Prof Jane Chapman
DESCRIPTION:Using two 1880s’ paintings of mermaids\, Evelyn De Morgan’
 s ‘The Sea Maidens’ and Edward Burne Jones’s ‘The Depths of the Se
 a’\, the paper suggests that underwater cable networks\, new communicati
 ons technologies\, scientific information\, and an ever-widening contact n
 etwork were driving aesthetic form into innovative patterns and concepts o
 f surface and depth\, and new kinds of coding.
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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