Telegraphic Realism: Victorian Fiction and Other Information SystemsStanford University Press, 2008 - 321 Seiten Menke's Telegraphic Realism is the first comprehensive reading of Victorian fiction as part of an emerging world of new media technologies and information exchange. The book analyzes the connections between fictional writing, communication technologies, and developing ideas about information, from the postage stamp and electric telegraph to wireless. By placing fiction in dialogue with media history, it argues that Victorian realism was print culture's sophisticated response to the possibilities and dilemmas of a world of media innovations and information flows. |
Inhalt
POST AND TELEGRAPH | 27 |
Electric Information | 68 |
Speaking Machines | 103 |
Information Unveiled | 134 |
The Telegraphers Tale | 163 |
A Winged Intelligence | 191 |
Wireless | 217 |
Afterlives of Victorian Information | 249 |
Works Cited | 286 |
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acoustic telegraphy Babbage Babbage's become body cable Cage Cambridge Carton century century's characters Charles Dickens communication connection consciousness culture Daniel Deronda device Dickens's early Edited Electric Telegraph Eliot ether experience fact fantasy figure flow Gaskell George George Eliot Henry Hereafter cited Hill's human Ibid idea imagination informatic invention James James's Jane Eyre Keats Kipling Kipling's knowledge Latimer Latimer's letters Lifted Veil literary literary realism literature London machine Madame Defarge Manette Marconi material media ecology medium messages Middlemarch mode modern information Mulready narrative narrator nineteenth nineteenth-century novel novelist offer optical telegraph Oxford Penny Post photograph postal reform postal system Press railway reader reality Revolution Rowland Hill Rudyard Kipling scene seems sense Shaynor signalman Sir Rowland Hill social story suggests tale tale's telegrams textual thoughts Three Clerks tion transmission Trollope Trollope's Univ Victorian fiction vision wireless telegraphy wires writing