Richard Menke (University of Georgia)

Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880-1900 (eBook, PDF)

Many Inventions

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2019
• ISBN-13: 9781108583084
• Artikelnr.: 70914333

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.