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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Yandell, Kay, 1968- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Telecommunication in literature. Telegraph in literature. National characteristics, American, in literature.

Table of 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.