Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880-1900 : Many Inventions (Hardcover)

Introduction ? inventing media and their meanings; 1. A message on all channels ? the unification of humanity; 2. Fictions of the Victorian telephone ? the medium is the media; 3. New media, new journalism, New Grub Street ? unsanctified typography; 4. The sinking of the triple decker ? format wars; 5. Writers of books ? the unmediated novel; 6. Words fail ? occulting media into information; 7. A Connecticut Yankee's media wars ? from orality to obliteracy; After words ? the end of the book.