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The Literature of Connection - Signal, Medium, Interface, 1850-1950 (Hardcover)
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The Literature of Connection - Signal, Medium, Interface, 1850-1950 (Hardcover)
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This book is about some of the ways in which the world got ready to
be connected, long before the advent of the technologies and the
concentrations of capital necessary to implement a global 'network
society'. It investigates the prehistory not of the communications
'revolution' brought about by advances in electronic digital
computing from 1950 onwards, but of the principle of connectivity
which was to provide that revolution with its justification and
rallying-cry. Connectivity's core principle is that what matters
most in any act of telecommunication, and sometimes all that
matters, is the fact of its having happened. During the nineteenth
century, the principle gained steadily increasing traction by means
not only of formal systems such as the telegraph, but of an array
of improvised methods and signalling devices. These methods and
devices fulfilled not just an ever more urgent need, but a
fundamental recurring desire, for near-instantaneous real-time
communication at a distance. Connectivity became an end in itself:
a complex, vivid, unpredictable romance woven through the enduring
human desire and need for remote intimacy. Its magical enhancements
are the stuff of tragedy, comedy, satire, elegy, lyric, melodrama,
and plain description; of literature, in short. The book develops
the concepts of signal, medium, and interface to offer, in its
first part, an alternative view of writing in Britain from George
Eliot and Thomas Hardy to D.H. Lawrence, Hope Mirrlees, and
Katherine Mansfield; and, in its second, case-studies of European
and African-American fiction, and of interwar British cinema,
designed to open the topic up for further enquiry.
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