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Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900

Many Inventions

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Buch | Hardcover
276 Seiten
2019
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-49294-2 (ISBN)
109,95 inkl. MwSt
Richard Menke links media innovation to imaginative literature, making the case for writers from Whitman to Twain, Kipling to Bram Stoker and Marie Corelli as the era's media theorists. This book will appeal to scholars, students and researchers of nineteenth-century literature and culture, the history of printing, and media and technology.
From telephones and transoceanic telegraphy to typewriters and phonographs, the era of Bell and Edison brought an array of wondrous new technologies for recording and communication. At the same time, print was becoming a mass medium, as works from newspapers to novels exploited new markets and innovations in publishing to address expanded readerships. Amid the accelerated movements of inventions and language, questions about media change became a transatlantic topic, connecting writers from Whitman to Kipling, Mark Twain to Bram Stoker and Marie Corelli. Media multiplicity seemed either to unite societies or bring division and conflict, to emphasize the material nature of communication or its transcendent side, to highlight distinctions between media or to let them be ignored. Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900 analyzes this ferment as an urgent subject as authors sought to understand the places of printed writing in the late nineteenth century's emerging media cultures.

Richard Menke is an associate professor of English at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Telegraphic Realism: Victorian Fiction and Other Information Systems (2008) and a three-time recipient of essay prizes from the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.

Introduction – inventing media and their meanings; 1. A message on all channels – the unification of humanity; 2. Fictions of the Victorian telephone – the medium is the media; 3. New media, new journalism, New Grub Street – unsanctified typography; 4. The sinking of the triple decker – format wars; 5. Writers of books – the unmediated novel; 6. Words fail – occulting media into information; 7. A Connecticut Yankee's media wars – from orality to obliteracy; After words – the end of the book.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 5 Halftones, black and white; 12 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 235 mm
Gewicht 560 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-108-49294-0 / 1108492940
ISBN-13 978-1-108-49294-2 / 9781108492942
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