Telegraphies : indigeneity, identity, and nation in America's nineteenth-century virtual realm /

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...

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Main Author: Yandell, Kay, 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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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.
Physical Description:x, 209 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190901042
0190901047