商品簡介
This work combines concepts and methods from media studies and colonial studies to investigate fictional literary portrayals of the British Empire's use of electric media, such as telegrams and telegraph, radio and wireless transmissions, the phonograph, and the cinema. Some authors examined include Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, Marie Corelli, H. Rider Haggard, and John Buchan. Portions of the book were first presented as papers at the Victorian Literature and Culture Seminar at Harvard University's Mahindra Humanities Center. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Aaron Worth is assistant professor of rhetoric at Boston University.
