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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 525–528.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Carol Colatrella [email protected] Telegraphies: Indigeneity, Identity, and Nation in America’s Nineteenth-Century Virtual Realm . By Kay Yandell . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2019 . x, 209 pp. Cloth, $78.00 ; e-book available. Modernizing Solitude...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Telegraphies</span>: Indigeneity, Identity, and Nation in America’s Nineteenth-Century Virtual Realm Modernizing Solitude: The Networked Individual in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Gears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain’s America
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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
...” analyses this cultural evolution in light of poststructuralist media-theoretical paradigms to come to a closer understanding of the epistemological issues these fictions brought to bear on telegraphy as the first truly digital means of communication—and arguably the founding technology of our current...
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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
... continues, “This was gutta-percha . . . . None
recognized the real value of that vegetable excrement till men wanted
to run lightning trains at the bottom of the sea.”6
In addition to gutta-percha’s much-publicized application for trans-
oceanic telegraphy, its use in the construction of tubing...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 669–698.
Published: 01 December 2005
... points as
the surface of the human body is covered with nervous extremities or
papillae 34
And so we have three intimately linked spectacular technologies
operating in the movie: firefighting, filmmaking, and telegraphy. The
Edison catalog’s section ‘‘Scene 2.—A Close View of a New York Fire
Alarm...
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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
... 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
and violence, oratory and embodiment, telegraphy and disembodiment—
were being recharted in U.S. culture in 1856...
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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
...
and violence, oratory and embodiment, telegraphy and disembodiment—
were being recharted in U.S. culture in 1856” (131). In this chapter, as through-
out the book, Hanlon attends not only to the specific materials under discus-
sion but also to how their economic and political reverberations echoed...
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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Getting the Picture: American Corporate Advertising and the Rise of a Cosmopolitan Visual Culture in The Ambassadors
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American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 307–333.
Published: 01 June 2007
... production. James recognized that adver-
tising (as well as the novel) was allied with media forms arising out
of what N. Katherine Hayles has labeled “inscription technologies,”
such as photography, cinema, telegraphy, and phonographic sound
recording and reproduction, in contrast to older...
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Arrested in the Moment of Dying: Science, Fiction, and the Reality Effect of Reprinting
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 523–551.
Published: 01 September 2018
... . “ Borrowings and Misreading: Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Mesmeric’ Tales and the Strange Case of Their Reception .” Aries 7 , no. 1 : 21 – 62 . Frank Adam . 2005 . “ Valdemar’s Tongue, Poe’s Telegraphy .” ELH 72 , no. 3 : 635 – 62 . Franzel Sean . 2009 . “ ‘Welches Gesetz ist der Mensch...
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Saving the Subject: Remediation in House of Leaves
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 779–806.
Published: 01 December 2002
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technologies include film, video, photography, tattoos, typewriters,
telegraphy, handwriting, and digital computers. The inscription sur-
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faces are no less varied, as Johnny Truant observes about Zampanò’s
notes, which include writings...
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Romantic Electricity, or the Materiality of Aesthetics
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 467–494.
Published: 01 September 2004
.... This acknowledg-
ment of the material forces behind such an experience appears in both
Thoreau and Whitman. Thoreau’s ambivalence toward the railroad
in the ‘‘Sounds’’ chapter of Walden suggests the growing interdepen-
dence of railroads and telegraphy when, ‘‘astonished at the miracles it
has wrought...
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Contraband Singing: Poems and Songs in Circulation during the Civil War
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 271–304.
Published: 01 June 2010
... accounts of them. The discourse on the
contraband flowed through unevenly plotted circuits, with points
across both Northern and Confederate states. Mediated by communi-
cation technologies like oral transcription, print, and telegraphy; cir-
culated in media like newspapers, broadsides...
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Salvaging History: Modern Philosophies of Memory and Time in The Age of Innocence
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 555–581.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of time could challenge the broad
standardization of time through time zones, telegraphy, and travel
that increasingly defined the era. Thus, the coexistence of private and
public time became a key feature of modern literature.
For Wharton, memory enabled private and public time...
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American Literary Realism and Nervous “Reflexion”
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 715–745.
Published: 01 December 2002
... of the
reliability of the nervous system as a medium.
The representation of one body part in another, and the connec-
tion between the rest of the body and the brain, which was naturally
the most interesting and complicated instance of such nervous sys-
tem telegraphy, inevitably had ramifications...
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Angels in (Mexican) America
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 683–711.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of daguerreotyping, telegraphy, and lithography, as well as the
shifts in paper manufacture (from perpetually scarce cotton and linen
rags to more abundant wood pulp) and printing (to steam-powered
presses). The 1840s were a technological modern age, by which point
indeed even Hawthorne’s Whig-sinecure...
