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

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

Many Inventions

Menke, Richard (University of Georgia)

Cambridge University Press

10/2019

276

Dura

Inglês

9781108492942

15 a 20 dias

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.
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.