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...Brian Hochman Hochman's essay uses the work of George Washington Cable to examine a far-reaching set of debates about media technology, auditory perception, and cultural difference that emerged during the 1880s and 1890s. The first half focuses on Cable's classic dialect novel The Grandissimes...

...Christopher Hanlon Hanlon's essay depicts South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks's 1856 assault on Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner as a flashpoint for 1850s controversies over the laying of transatlantic telegraphic cable between the United States and England. Widely treated by both...

... at the horizon. He also authored telegraphic poems as well as children’s books starring a young sailor named Jacky Cable. 18 The story is summarized by Simon ( 2005 ) as well as Jepsen ( 2000 ). 19 Walter Benjamin ( 1995 , 35) would later call these French cityscapes a “close combat of telegraph...

... of racial stat- ure and purity” (45), but it is the fifth chapter that truly sparkles. Beginning from a provocative juxtaposition of the gutta-percha cane Preston Brooks used to attack Charles Sumner with the transatlantic cable between England and the United States made possible by gutta-percha...

... Charles Sumner with the transatlantic cable between England and the United States made possible by gutta-percha insulation, Hanlon shows that “the assault as a form of violent (tele)communication” indicates “a moment of epistemological crisis within a constellation whose coordinates—eloquence...

... thirty years later, contemporary ecocritics have revealed cyberspace’s deep and continued connection to our physical world. Tracing the impact of telecommunication services, data centers, electricity, and cables, scholars like Tung-Hui Hu, Allison Carruth, and Nicole Starosielski challenge the internet’s...

..., and American Southern writing. Brosman’s literary history draws on archival research for authors within the American canon, such as Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable; and on personal interviews with con- temporary writers, discussing both groups relative to more exclusively regional figures...

... become almost an Africa’’ (176) and ‘‘a dark continent, perilously beyond white control’’ (180). This horror is the basis, he argues, of Edgar Allan Poe’s evocation of blackness in his stories and poems; George Washington Cable’s Louisiana fictions, including the figure of Bras Coupé in The Grandis...

... in 1893, to the moral horror and legal objec- tions of President Grover Cleveland and the Blount Commission. In 1903, after American annexation had been secured and the Pacific cable had connected the territory...

.... Hotchner. Ed. Albert J. DeFazio III. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2005. 416 pp. $34.95. One-hundred-sixty collected letters, cables, and cards trace the relationship between Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner, his agent, authorized adapter, and memoirist. Offering a glimpse into the psychological...

... of objects, capital, people, and ideologies: ASCII code; fiber-optic cables; tenure lines; server farms; research centers and literature labs; wage laborers and graduate students who scan, attach metadata, and program search functions; the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); the manpower...

... Page, W. E. B. DuBois, and George Washington Cable. While address- ing major writers, Schmidt’s book is a treasure trove for noncanoni- cal narratives of the period whose ideological and stylistic complexi- ties are presented with succinct elegance. By going “south to a new place,” Schmidt...

... not confined to his novels but were undertaken as a collaborative cultural project between Chesnutt and some of his closest interlocutors, including Robert C. Ogden (a Tuskegee trustee), Washington, George Washington Cable, and Du Bois. While Chesnutt was conversant with these figureheads, he was also...

... the city by car, Jim insists they progress to other horizontally based modes of communication such as “‘the long distance telephone—the telegraph and the cable before exploring more vertically oriented technologies such as “‘night The Black Skyscraper  541...

...- gual America is linguistic creolization, which figures centrally in Rosenwald’s second chapter on Louisiana novelists Alfred Mercier and George Washing- ton Cable. Both works share a modest awareness of the extraordinarily varied forms and implications of literary multilingualism. Both identify...

... and George Washing- ton Cable. Both works share a modest awareness of the extraordinarily varied forms and implications of literary multilingualism. Both identify themselves as provisional studies rather than conclusive or comprehensive ones, and the authors represented steer careful courses between...

... and security of monolingual readers. One thematic interest that links World Writing and Rosenwald’s Multilin- gual America is linguistic creolization, which figures centrally in Rosenwald’s second chapter on Louisiana novelists Alfred Mercier and George Washing- ton Cable. Both works share a modest...

... and security of monolingual readers. One thematic interest that links World Writing and Rosenwald’s Multilin- gual America is linguistic creolization, which figures centrally in Rosenwald’s second chapter on Louisiana novelists Alfred Mercier and George Washing- ton Cable. Both works share a modest...

...- gual America is linguistic creolization, which figures centrally in Rosenwald’s second chapter on Louisiana novelists Alfred Mercier and George Washing- ton Cable. Both works share a modest awareness of the extraordinarily varied forms and implications of literary multilingualism. Both identify...

... and George Washing- ton Cable. Both works share a modest awareness of the extraordinarily varied forms and implications of literary multilingualism. Both identify themselves as provisional studies rather than conclusive or comprehensive ones, and the authors represented steer careful courses between...