Telegraphic Realism: Victorian Fiction and Other Information SystemsStanford University Press, 2008 - 321 pages 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. |
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Page 129
... thoughts that were inspiring her " ( TTC , 389 ) . It is an impulse far more authentic and intriguing , the novel implies , than the behavior of those prisoners fixated on outward mien and gesture even at their last moments , " so ...
... thoughts that were inspiring her " ( TTC , 389 ) . It is an impulse far more authentic and intriguing , the novel implies , than the behavior of those prisoners fixated on outward mien and gesture even at their last moments , " so ...
Page 132
... thoughts or extends to their premonitory dimension — whether these oracular thoughts would have been these if they were spoken , or only if they happened to be his thoughts , a wholly circular assertion . The first possibility would ...
... thoughts or extends to their premonitory dimension — whether these oracular thoughts would have been these if they were spoken , or only if they happened to be his thoughts , a wholly circular assertion . The first possibility would ...
Page 136
... thoughts and emotions outside of our own minds . ? A properly experimental psychology would offer another , as observation and experiment give us admittance into " the feelings and thoughts of others . " The fiction of George Eliot ...
... thoughts and emotions outside of our own minds . ? A properly experimental psychology would offer another , as observation and experiment give us admittance into " the feelings and thoughts of others . " The fiction of George Eliot ...
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