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873411
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Yandell, Kay,1968-
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| Title & Author
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Telegraphies : : indigeneity, identity, and nation in America's nineteenth-century virtual realm /\ Kay Yandell.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, [2018]
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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0190901063
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: 0190901071
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: 9780190901066
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: 9780190901073
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0190901047
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9780190901042
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- A Virtual Realm in Morse's Dot and Dash -- Chapter One Moccasin Telegraph: Telecommunication Across Native America -- Chapter Two Crossing Border Wires: Telegraphers' Literatures and the State of American Union -- Chapter Three Corsets with Copper Wire: Victorian America's Cyborg Feminists -- Chapter Four Emily Dickinson's Telegrams from God -- Chapter Five Engineering Eden in Walt Whitman's "Passage to India" -- Conclusion Hawthorne's Celestial Telegraph and the Cycle of History.
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"Telegraphies explores the work of such diverse writers as Sarah Winnemucca, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, and Emily Dickinson, to reveal a body of literature in which Americans of all ranks imagine how nineteenth-century telecommunications technologies forever alter the way Americans speak, write, form community, and conceive of the divine"--
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American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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Telecommunication in literature.
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Telegraph in literature.
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American literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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Telecommunication in literature.
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Telegraph in literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/003
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PS217.T45Y36 2018eb
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| Parallel Title
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Indigeneity, identity, and nation in America's nineteenth-century virtual realm
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