The Edwardian Picture Postcard as a Communications Revolution: A Literacy Studies Perspective

by Julia Gillen

This monograph offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an innovative form of multimodal communication, revealing much about the creativity, concerns and lives of those who used postcards as an almost instantaneous form of communication.

In the early twentieth century, the picture postcard was a revolutionary way of combining short messages with an image, making use of technologies in a way impossible in the decades...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032198877
• ISBN13: 9781032198873
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"