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BL
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706682
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b528871
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| Main Entry
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Otis, Laura,1961-
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| Title & Author
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Networking : : communicating with bodies and machines in the nineteenth century /\ Laura Otis.
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| Publication Statement
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Ann Arbor :: The University of Michigan Press,, 2001.
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| Series Statement
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Studies in literature and science
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viii, 268 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0472112139 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780472112135 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-259) and index.
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| Contents
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Ch. 1. The Language of the Nerves -- Ch. 2. The Metaphoric Web -- Ch. 3. The Webs of Middlemarch -- Ch. 4. The Language of the Wires -- Ch. 5. Two Telegraphers Unhappy with Their Nerves -- Ch. 6. A Web without Wires -- Conclusion: Wired Thoughts.
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| Abstract
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"This new interdisciplinary study investigates the scientific and cultural roots of contemporary conceptions of the network, including computer information systems, the human nervous system, and communication technology. Laura Otis demonstrates that those roots are centuries old, not a modern conception. She shows how nineteenth-century neurobiologists, engineers, and fiction writers influenced each other's ideas about communication. Placing our own comparisons of nerve and computer networks in perspective, Otis explores their emergence in early analogies linking nerves and telegraphs."--BOOK JACKET.
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| Subject
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Telecommunication-- History-- 19th century.
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| LC Classification
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TK5102.2.O88 2001
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