Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America
Literary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies
This book examines temporal and formal disruptions found in American autobiographical narratives produced during the end of the nineteenth century. It argues that disruptions were primarily the result of encounters with new communication and transportation technologies. Through readings of major autobiographical works of the period, James E. Dobson argues that the range of affective responses to writing, communicating, and traveling at increasing speed and distance were registered in this literature's formal innovation. These autobiographical works, Dobson claims, complicate our understanding of the lived experience of time, temporality, and…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-319-67322-6
- EAN: 9783319673226
- Produktnummer: 24128999
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 117 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'840 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2017
- Abbildungen: Bibliographie
Über den Autor
James E. Dobson is Lecturer at Dartmouth College where he conducts research on American literature, autobiography, and the digital humanities. He is the author of essays on Mark Twain, Lucy Larcom, Shirley Jackson, and Ambrose Bierce and several addressing computational methods and text mining.
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