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Hearing Lost, Hearing Found: George Washington Cable and the Phono-Ethnographic Ear
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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...
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Embodied Eloquence, the Sumner Assault, and the Transatlantic Cable
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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...
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Tapping the Wire: A Telegraphic Discourse
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 269–300.
Published: 01 June 2016
... 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...
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To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave: American Poetry and the Civil War America’s England: Antebellum Literature and Atlantic Sectionalism
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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...
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Upon Provincialism: Southern Literature and National Periodical Culture, 1870–1900 Rural Fictions, Urban Realities: A Geography of Gilded Age American Literature
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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...
View articletitled, Upon Provincialism: Southern Literature and National Periodical Culture, 1870–1900 Rural Fictions, Urban Realities: A Geography of Gilded Age American Literature
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“Jack In, Young Pioneer”: Frontier Politics, Ecological Entrapment, and the Architecture of Cyberspace
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 September 2021
... 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...
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Brief Mention
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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...
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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...
View articletitled, “Unstoppable” Creolization: The Evolution of the South into a Transnational Cultural Space; South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture; History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction; Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales
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Exporting Christian Transcendentalism, Importing Hawaiian Sugar: The Trans-Americanization of Hawai`i
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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...
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Brief Mention
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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...
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Aesthetics and the Infrastructural Turn in the Digital Humanities
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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...
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Looking for the Real South: Regional, National, and Hemispheric Perspectives
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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...
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Into the Morass: Chesnutt, Antinormativity, and the Queer Politics of Early Jim Crow Literature
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 495–522.
Published: 01 September 2018
... 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...
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The Black Skyscraper
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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...
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The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
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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...
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Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
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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...
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American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet
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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...
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Henry James's Narrative Technique: Consciousness, Perception, and Cognition
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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...
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Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture
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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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World Writing: Poetics, Ethics, Globalization
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 201–203.
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...
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