Telegraphic realism : Victorian fiction and other information systems
Review: "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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2008
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2008
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 321 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
9780804756914, 0804756910
1021783380
Introduction : Victorian informatics
The new post age
Electric information
Speaking machines
Information unveiled
The telegrapher's tale
A winged intelligence
Wireless
Coda : afterlives of Victorian information