Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900: Many Inventions

Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Inventing Media and Their Meanings
	The Phonautograph and Nineteenth-Century Media
	Media beyond Writing
	Thinking about Media in the Late Nineteenth Century
	Toward an Archaeology of Media Systems
	From Intermediality to Vernacular Media Theory
Chapter 1 A Message on All Channels: The Unification of Humanity
	The Truth
	The Removal
	Bulletin, Bullet, and Bell
	The National Interest
	Sobbing Bells
Chapter 2 Fictions of the Victorian Telephone: The Medium Is the Media
	A Tangle of Other Voices
	A Novel on the Old Lines
	A Line in the Telephone
Chapter 3 New Media, New Journalism, New Grub Street: Unsanctified Typography
	Media Material
	A Few Tit-Bits in Connection with Grub Street
Chapter 4 The Sinking of the Triple-Decker: Format Wars
	The Three-Volume Standard
	A New Order on the Eve of Establishment
Chapter 5 Writers of Books: The Unmediated Novel
	The Novel Resanctified
	The Novel Unwritten
Chapter 6 Words Fail: Occulting Media into Information
	Unreality Effects
	Information Vampires
Chapter 7 A Connecticut Yankee\'s Media Wars: Orality and Obliteracy
	These Animals Didn\'t Reason
	Typesetting 2.0
	Cold Type, Hot Lead
After Words: The End of the Book
Bibliography
Notes
	Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	After Words
Index