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University of Minnesota Press Picturing the Postcard: A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century

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The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium Literature has \u201cdied\u201d many times—this book tells the story of its death by postcard. Picturing the Postcard looks to this unlikely source to shed light on our collective, modern-day obsession with new media. The postcard, almost unimaginably now, produced at the end of the nineteenth century the same anxieties and hopes that many people think are unique to twenty-first-century social media such as Facebook or Twitter. It promised a newly connected social world accessible to all and threatened the breakdown of authentic social relations and even of language. Arguing that \u201cnew media\u201d is as much a discursive object as a material one, and that it is always in dialogue with the media that came before it, Monica Cure reconstructs the postcard\u2019s history through journals, legal documents, and sources from popular culture, analyzing the postcard\u2019s representation in fiction by well-known writers such as E. M. Forster and Edith Wharton and by more obscure writers like Anne Sedgwick and Herbert Flowerdew. Writers deployed uproar over the new medium of the postcard by Anglo-American cultural critics to mirror anxieties about the changing nature of the literary marketplace, which included the new role of women in public life, the appeal of celebrity and the loss of privacy, an increasing dependence on new technologies, and the rise of mass media. Literature kept open the postcard\u2019s possibilities and in the process reimagined what literature could be. Review "Picturing the Postcard recovers just how fraught and powerful a communications technology postcards were at the turn of the twentieth century. With a dazzling range of reference, Monica Cure demonstrates the remarkable cultural and literary power of the postcard and rewrites our contemporary narratives of new media."—Kate Marshall, author of Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction "Picturing the Postcard turns our attention to a small yet vital piece of nineteenth-century new media. Tracking the postcard’s outsized effects, in everything from touristic travel to the rise of feminism, Monica Cure illuminates an often-overlooked item whose cult popularity reveals much about modern life and culture in turn-of-the-century America and Britain."—Rachel Teukolsky, Venderbilt University From the Author Monica Cure is assistant professor of comparative literature at the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University in Los Angeles, California. About the Author Monica Cure is assistant professor of comparative literature at the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University in Los Angeles, California.

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Brand: University of Minnesota Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1517902789
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 December 2018
Listed Since: 02 April 2018

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