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Telegraphies : indigeneity, identity, and nation in America's nineteenth-century virtual realm / Kay Yandell

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Yandell, Kay, 1968-
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Indigeneity, identity, and nation in America's nineteenth-century virtual realm
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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x, 209 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Contents
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.
Summary
"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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9780190901042 hardcover
0190901047 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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