Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900: Many Inventions

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From telephones and transoceanic telegraphy to typewriters and phonographs, the era of Bell and Edison brought an array of wondrous new technologies for recording and communication. At the same time, print was becoming a mass medium, as works from newspapers to novels exploited new markets and innovations in publishing to address expanded readerships. Amid the accelerated movements of inventions and language, questions about media change became a transatlantic topic, connecting writers from Whitman to Kipling, Mark Twain to Bram Stoker and Marie Corelli. Media multiplicity seemed either to unite societies or bring division and conflict, to emphasize the material nature of communication or its transcendent side, to highlight distinctions between media or to let them be ignored. Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900 analyzes this ferment as an urgent subject as authors sought to understand the places of printed writing in the late nineteenth century's emerging media cultures. Cover Half-title Series information Title page Copyright information Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Inventing Media and Their Meanings The Phonautograph and Nineteenth-Century Media Media beyond Writing Thinking about Media in the Late Nineteenth Century Toward an Archaeology of Media Systems From Intermediality to Vernacular Media Theory Chapter 1 A Message on All Channels: The Unification of Humanity The Truth The Removal Bulletin, Bullet, and Bell The National Interest Sobbing Bells Chapter 2 Fictions of the Victorian Telephone: The Medium Is the Media A Tangle of Other Voices A Novel on the Old Lines A Line in the Telephone Chapter 3 New Media, New Journalism, New Grub Street: Unsanctified Typography Media Material A Few Tit-Bits in Connection with Grub Street Chapter 4 The Sinking of the Triple-Decker: Format Wars The Three-Volume Standard A New Order on the Eve of Establishment Chapter 5 Writers of Books: The Unmediated Novel The Novel Resanctified The Novel Unwritten Chapter 6 Words Fail: Occulting Media into Information Unreality Effects Information Vampires Chapter 7 A Connecticut Yankee's Media Wars: Orality and Obliteracy These Animals Didn't Reason Typesetting 2.0 Cold Type, Hot Lead After Words: The End of the Book Bibliography Notes Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 After Words Index