Telegraphies reveals 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. Cover -- Telegraphies...
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Telegraphies reveals 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. Cover -- Telegraphies -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Virtual Realm in Morse's Dot and Dash -- 1. Moccasin Telegraph: Telecommunication across Native America -- 2. Crossing Border Wires: Telegraphers' Literatures and the State of American Union -- 3. Corsets with Copper Wire: Victorian America's Cyborg Feminists -- 4. Emily Dickinson's Telegrams from God -- 5. Engineering Eden in Walt Whitman's "Passage to India" -- Conclusion: Hawthorne's Celestial Telegraph and the Cycle of History -- Notes -- Index.
