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From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained
glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the
scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge
to learn more about Victorian things. The set brings together a
range of primary sources on Victorian material culture and
discusses the most significant developments in material history
from across the nineteenth century. The collection will demonstrate
the significance of objects in the everyday lives of the Victorians
and addresses important questions about how we classify and
categorise nineteenth-century things. This collection brings
together a range of primary sources on Victorian material and
culture. This third volume, 'Invention and Technology', will look
at a variety of Victorian inventions, both foundational and
short-lived.
Menke's "Telegraphic Realism" is the first comprehensive reading of
Victorian fiction as part of an emerging world of new media
technologies and information exchange. The book analyzes the
connections between fictional writing, communication technologies,
and developing ideas about information, from the postage stamp and
electric telegraph to wireless. By placing fiction in dialogue with
media history, it argues that Victorian realism was print culture's
sophisticated response to the possibilities and dilemmas of a world
of media innovations and information flows.
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.
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.
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