New media, 1740-1915 /

Corporate Author: M.I.T. Press
Other Authors: Gitelman, Lisa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c2003
Series:Media in transition
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Table of Contents:
  • What's new about new media? / Geoffrey B. Pingree and Lisa Gitelman
  • Zograscopes, virtual reality, and the mapping of polite society in eighteenth-century England / Erin C. Blake
  • Heads of state: profiles and politics in Jeffersonian America / Wendy Bellion
  • Children of media, children as media: optical telegraphs, Indian pupils, and Joseph Lancaster's system for cultural replication / Patricia Crain
  • Telegraphy's corporeal fictions / Katherine Stubbs
  • From phantom image to perfect vision: physiological optics, commercial photography, and the popularization of the stereoscope / Laura Burd Schiavo
  • Sinful network or divine service: competing meanings of the telephone in Amish country / Diane Zimmerman Umble
  • Souvenir foils: on the status of print at the origin of recorded sound / Lisa Gitelman
  • R.L. Garner and the rise of the Edison phonograph in evolutionary philology / Gregory Radick
  • Scissorizing and scrapbooks: nineteenth-century reading, remaking, and recirculating / Ellen Gruber Garvey
  • Media on display: a telegraphic history of early American cinema / Paul Young