Kay Yandell

Telegraphies

Indigeneity, Identity, and Nation in America's Nineteenth-Century Virtual Realm

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Produktbeschreibung

Telegraphies reveals a body of literature in which Americans of all ranks imagine how nineteenth-century telecommunications technologies forever alter the way Americans speak, write, form community, and conceive of the divine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780190901042
• ISBN-10: 0190901047
• Artikelnr.: 54320879

Autorenporträt

Kay Yandell is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas with her husband and children.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: A Virtual Realm in Morse's Dot and Dash
* Chapter 1: Moccasin Telegraph: Telecommunication Across Native
America
* Chapter 2: Crossing Border Wires: Telegraphers' Literatures and the
State of American Union
* Chapter 3: Corsets with Copper Wire: Victorian America's Cyborg
Feminists
* Chapter 4: Emily Dickinson's Telegrams from God
* Chapter 5: Engineering Eden in Walt Whitman's "Passage to India"
* Conclusion: Hawthorne's Celestial Telegraph and the Cycle of History