indigeneity, identity, and nation in America's nineteenth-century virtual realm /
First Statement of Responsibility
Kay Yandell.
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New York :
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Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2018]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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, form community, and conceive of the divine"--
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Title
Telegraphies.
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9780190901042
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Indigeneity, identity, and nation in America's nineteenth-century virtual realm
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Telecommunication in literature.
Telegraph in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
National characteristics, American, in literature.