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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 533–561.
Published: 01 September 2012
... histories in which sign talk played a significant role. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Kay The Moccasin Telegraph: Sign-Talk
Yandell Autobiography and Pretty-shield, Medicine
Woman of the Crows
Over several cold and windy days in March...
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Published: 01 June 2016
Figure 2 Detail from W. L. Jumel, “Stuart’s Cavalry Cutting Telegraph Wires” (Northrop 1893 , 752)
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 269–300.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Figure 3 The Morse-Vail Telegraph-Key ...
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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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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 467–494.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of
the telegraph. As a standard progressive history of electrical science
frames it, t]hree events provided the stable base of modern electri-
cal science: the discovery of a constant-current source of electricity
by Volta, the magnetic influence of an electric current by Oersted and,
finally, the generation...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 525–528.
Published: 01 September 2021
... on nineteenth-century writers and texts. Yandell, Furui, and Williams discuss how these texts and technologies are shaped by American politics and spiritual values, revealing underpinnings of modernist and postmodern ideas of self and society. Telegraphies discusses “telegraph literature,” a term Yandell...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 669–698.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., implicitly linking the workings of the new medium of
moving pictures with the institutional operations of other fascinat-
ing technologies such as railroads and telegraphs.11 More pointedly
in the case of the fire run, the singular apparatus of men, engines,
and horses all energetically straining together...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 897–914.
Published: 01 December 2012
... in Hollywood, 217–18.
Review: Collins, Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Cul-
ture Became Popular Culture, 217–18.
Yandell, Kay. “The Moccasin Telegraph: Sign Talk Autobiography and
Pretty-shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows,” 533–61.
Ybarra, Patricia. Review: Pao, No Safe Spaces...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 65–92.
Published: 01 March 2009
... and
then her execution.32 The papers battled each other over their com-
mitments to defend Southern rights and the more general interest in
preserving the Union. The Dollar Missouri Journal, described as some-
what “radical” by journalism historian William Taft, also attacked the
Fulton (Mo.) Telegraph...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 830–833.
Published: 01 December 2013
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through which information circulates. Like Perloff and Bernstein, Goble sit-
uates literary texts not in opposition to but within the networks constituted
by the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, magnetic tape recordings,
Book Reviews 831...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 215.
Published: 01 March 2014
... © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Announcements
2013 Don D. Walker Prize
Kay Yandell’s essay “The Moccasin Telegraph: Sign-Talk Autobiography and
Pretty-Shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows” (American Literature 84:3,
533–61), received the 2013 Don D. Walker Prize, awarded...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 523–551.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Cahagnet’s The Celestial Telegraph; or, The Secrets of the Life to Come, Revealed through Magnetism (1851). 15 Kerner himself similarly felt compelled to assert time and again that his prolix narrative of Mrs. H. was based on “pure facts” whose explanation was left to the reader’s discretion...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 687–688.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of contemporary American literature? How have prose styles and
aesthetics, at different historical moments, been influenced by new commu-
nications technologies from the telegraph to the phonograph to cinema to the
digital computer to mobile phones? Moreover, do the transmedia dimensions...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 493–521.
Published: 01 September 2014
...
concept in the nineteenth century is largely due to an increased impact
of concrete network structures in terms of transportation and commu-
nication, most notably the railroad and the telegraph. The accelerating
dynamics of industrialization, the rise of the market economy, and an
eager phase...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 231–232.
Published: 01 March 2012
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munications technologies from the telegraph to the phonograph to cinema to
the digital computer to mobile phones? Moreover, do the transmedia dimen-
sions of such technologies suggest a scope that surpasses the geopolitical
boundaries of the United States? Finally, how do American studies...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 719–744.
Published: 01 December 2013
... Press . Mark Chi-Kwan . 2004 . Hong Kong and the Cold War . Oxford, UK : Clarendon Press . Menke Richard . 2008 . Telegraphic Realism . Palo Alto, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . Ninkovich Frank . 1981 . The Diplomacy of Ideas . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Univ. Press...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of contemporary American literature? How have prose styles
and aesthetics, at different historical moments, been influenced by new com-
munications technologies from the telegraph to the phonograph to cinema to
the digital computer to mobile phones? Moreover, do the transmedia dimen-
sions...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 215–217.
Published: 01 March 2002
... these developments affected reading and writing
in North American culture? If the beginning of the twentieth century was ar-
ticulated through an old digitality (the typewriter, telegraph, and telephone),
we have just begun to imagine the start of the twenty-first as defined by a new
notion of the digital. Guest...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 715–745.
Published: 01 December 2002
... this point, using the metaphor of
the nervous system as a telegraphic system that was so often adopted
in the nineteenth century to characterize nerve pathways and their
means of electrical communication. The great sympathetic nerve,
he writes, ‘‘furnishes an abundant supply of branches directly...
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