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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 489–518.
Published: 01 September 2010
...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...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 519–551.
Published: 01 September 2010
...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...
Journal Article
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 269–300.
Published: 01 June 2016
... that seemed to promise immediate, unfiltered communication. Marked by a rapid expansion of the telegraphic network of the continental United States—900 percent between 1848 and 1853 (290)—and the euphoria over the laying of the first transatlantic cable (1854–1858), the new technology was politically promoted...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 389–391.
Published: 01 June 2015
... 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...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 391–393.
Published: 01 June 2015
... 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...
Journal Article
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 September 2021
... it. But of course, every new iteration of the technological frontier builds on top of its ancestors, a layered graveyard of territories and utopias, colonial hardware stacked atop more colonial hardware. Undersea cables that tie the internet together from continent to continent are built atop undersea telegraph...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 213–220.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., 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...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 859–867.
Published: 01 December 2006
... 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...
Journal Article
American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 521–552.
Published: 01 September 2000
... 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...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 649–659.
Published: 01 September 2011
...
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...
Journal Article
American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 627–637.
Published: 01 September 2016
... 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...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 419–428.
Published: 01 June 2006
.... 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...
Journal Article
American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 495–522.
Published: 01 September 2018
... viable African American sexual propriety were 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...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 531–561.
Published: 01 September 2013
... 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...
Journal Article
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 551–581.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Washington Cable moderated), implicitly reinforcing the
claim that “the fashion of local color” was “the most modern phase of
literature” (Allen 1886, 14). In the Ethnology and Archaeology Depart-
ment, the new genre of the life-group exhibit in the United States Gov-
ernment Building proudly employed...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 189–191.
Published: 01 March 2012
...-
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...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2012
... 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...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 193–195.
Published: 01 March 2012
... 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...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2012
... 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...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 198–200.
Published: 01 March 2012
...-
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...
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