Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880-1900 - Many Inventions

Richard Menke links media innovation to imaginative literature, making the case for writers from Whitman to Twain, Kipling to Bram Stoker and Marie Corelli as the era's media theorists. This book will appeal to scholars, students and researchers of nineteenth-century literature and culture, the history of printing, and media and technology.

List of contents

Introduction - inventing media and their meanings; 1. A message on all channels - the unification of humanity; 2. Fictions of the Victorian telephone - the medium is the media; 3. New media, new journalism, New Grub Street - unsanctified typography; 4. The sinking of the triple decker - format wars; 5. Writers of books - the unmediated novel; 6. Words fail - occulting media into information; 7. A Connecticut Yankee's media wars - from orality to obliteracy; After words - the end of the book.

About the author

Richard Menke is an associate professor of English at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Telegraphic Realism: Victorian Fiction and Other Information Systems (2008) and a three-time recipient of essay prizes from the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.

Summary

Richard Menke links media innovation to imaginative literature, making the case for writers from Whitman to Twain, Kipling to Bram Stoker and Marie Corelli as the era's media theorists. This book will appeal to scholars, students and researchers of nineteenth-century literature and culture, the history of printing, and media and technology.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Menke, Richard (University of Georgia) Menke, Menke Richard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781108730174
• ISBN: 978-1-108-73017-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Popular Culture, History of Ideas, Social & cultural history, c 1500 onwards to present day, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history