Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America: Literary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies

by James E. Dobson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319673211
• ISBN13: 9783319673219
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"