商品簡介
Menke (English, U. of Georgia) examines British fiction during the era of the Penny Post and the electric telegraph, and argues that creative writing responds in crucial and defining ways to the 19th century's new forms of media and the ideas they encouraged regarding information, communication, and language. This was the era in which Charles Dickens dared dream of an undersea telegraph cable between Dover and Calais. The author notes that the postage stamp and electric telegraph significantly altered the meaning of the "old" technologies of writing and print. The author's intent is not only to discuss fiction drawn from Victorian media technology, but also to explore how new technologies can influence the ways literature imagines and represents the real world. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Richard Menke is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia.
