The Literature of Connection: Signal, Medium, Interface, 1850-1950

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The Literature of Connection: Signal, Medium, Interface, 1850–1950
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
	Medium
	Signal
	Interface
	Method and Structure
PART I: BRITISH LITERATURE: VICTORIAN TO MODERNIST
	1: The Telegraphic Principle in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
		Optical Telegraphy in Fact and Fiction
			Daniel Deronda
		Wessex as Medium
		Revisitations 1: A Pair of Blue Eyes
		Revisitations 2: The Return of the Native
		The Practice of Signalling
		The Later Novels
	2: The Interface as Cultural Form: Conrad’s Sea Captains
		Conrad’s Ships: Technology as Existence
		Conrad’s Captains: The Quarterdeck as Interface
		Technological Empire
		Heart of Darkness: Medium as Message
	3: After Electromagnetism
		Towards Media Theory
		Return Strokes
		Modernism
	4: Starry Sky: Wyndham Lewis and Mina Loy
		Electromagnetic Cosmology
		Vorticism as Media Theory
		‘Enemy of the Stars’
		‘Songs to Joannes’
		Modernist Cryptography
	5: Giving the Sign: Katherine Mansfield’s Stories
		Island Story
		From Psychology to Signalling
		Bicameral Narrative Structure
		Mansfield’s Bicameral Stories (Movement between Buildings)
		Mansfield’s Bicameral Stories (Movement between Rooms in the Same Building)
		Signals and Signs
		Colonial Messaging
		Waterway
PART II: CASE STUDIES
	6: Kafka’s Strindberg
		What Islands Do: Isolation, Insulation
		Extreme Local Colour Writing
		By the Open Sea
		Kafka’s Strindberg
	7: Women Spies
		Technology Upgrades
		Women Spies
	8: Flying Africans, Black Pilots
		Flying Africans
		Aviation as Tall Technology
		Claude McKay
		Ralph Ellison
	Conclusion
		Corridors
		Eisenstein
Endnotes
	Introduction
	Chapter 1. The Telegraphic Principle in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
	Chapter 2. The Interface as Cultural Form: Conrad’s Sea Captains
	Chapter 3. After Electromagnetism
	Chapter 4. Starry Sky: Wyndham Lewis and Mina Loy
	Chapter 5. Giving the Sign: Katherine Mansfield’s Stories
	Chapter 6. Kafka’s Strindberg
	Chapter 7. Women Spies
	Chapter 8. Flying Africans, Black Pilots
	Conclusion
Index