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Telegraphic realism : Victorian fiction and other information systems / Richard Menke.
LIBRA PR878.C636 M46 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Menke, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Communication in literature.
- Technology in literature.
- Telecommunication in literature.
- Telegraph in literature.
- Postal service in literature.
- Realism in literature.
- Communication and technology--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Communication and technology.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 321 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- "Telegraphic Realism" demonstrates the connections between British nineteenth-century fiction, media technologies, and developing ideas about information, from the postage stamp to wireless.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Victorian informatics
- The new post age
- Electric information
- Speaking machines
- Information unveiled
- The telegrapher's tale
- A winged intelligence
- Wireless
- Coda : afterlives of Victorian information.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [286]-311) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804756914
- 0804756910
- OCLC:
- 85851437
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