New Media, 1740-1915 - Table of Contents

October 2004
7 x 9, 305 pp., 42 illus.
$21.95/£16.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-57228-1
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-57228-6

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New Media, 1740-1915
Edited by Lisa Gitelman and Geoffrey B. Pingree

	Series Foreword	vii

	Acknowledgments	ix

	Introduction: What's New About New Media? Geoffrey B. Pingree and Lisa Gitelman Sample Chapter - Download PDF (99 KB)	xi

	Documents	xxiii

1.	Zograscopes, Virtual Reality, and the Mapping of Polite Society in Eighteenth-Century England Erin C. Blake Sample Chapter - Download PDF (342 KB)	1

2.	Heads of State: Profiles and Politics in Jeffersonian America Wendy Bellion	31

3.	Children of Media, Children as Media: Optical Telegraphs, Indian Pupils, and Joseph Lancaster's System for Cultural Replication Patricia Crain	61

4.	Telegraphy's Corporeal Fictions Katherine Stubbs	91

5.	From Phantom Image to Perfect Vision: Physiological Optics, Commercial Photography, and the Popularization of the Stereoscope Laura Burd Schiavo	113

6.	Sinful Network or Divine Service: Competing Meanings of the Telephone in Amish Country Diane Zimmerman Umble	139

7.	Souvenir Foils: On the Status of Print at the Origin of Recorded Sound Lisa Gitelman	157

8.	R.L. Garner and the Rise of the Edison Phonograph in Evolutionary Philology Gregory Radick	175

9.	Scissorizing and Scrapbooks: Nineteenth-Century Reading, Remaking, and Recirculating Ellen Gruber Garvey	207

10.	Media on Display: A Telegraphic History of Early American Cinema Paul Young	229

	Contributors	265

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (49 KB)	267

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