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Telegraphies : indigeneity, identity, and nation in America's nineteenth-century virtual realm
- Title
- Telegraphies : indigeneity, identity, and nation in America's nineteenth-century virtual realm / Kay Yandell.
- Author
- Yandell, Kay, 1968-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- x, 209 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Telegraphies explores the work of such diverse writers as Sarah Winnemucca, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, and Emily Dickinson, to reveal a body of literature in which Americans of all ranks imagine how nineteenth-century telecommunications technologies forever alter the way Americans speak, write, form community, and conceive of the divine" --
- Alternative Title
- Indigeneity, identity, and nation in America's nineteenth-century virtual realm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-200) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- A Virtual Realm in Morse's Dot and Dash -- Chapter One Moccasin Telegraph: Telecommunication Across Native America -- Chapter Two Crossing Border Wires: Telegraphers' Literatures and the State of American Union -- Chapter Three Corsets with Copper Wire: Victorian America's Cyborg Feminists -- Chapter Four Emily Dickinson's Telegrams from God -- Chapter Five Engineering Eden in Walt Whitman's "Passage to India" -- Conclusion Hawthorne's Celestial Telegraph and the Cycle of History.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-6586
- ISBN
- 9780190901042
- 0190901047
- LCCN
- 2018013259
- OCLC
- 1051776692
- Author
- Yandell, Kay, 1968- author.
- Title
- Telegraphies : indigeneity, identity, and nation in America's nineteenth-century virtual realm / Kay Yandell.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-200) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-6586