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Modernity and autobiography in nineteenth-century America = literary representations of communication and transportation technologies /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Modernity and autobiography in nineteenth-century America/ by James E. Dobson.
Reminder of title:	literary representations of communication and transportation technologies /
Author:	Dobson, James E.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017.,
Description:	vii, 117 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Authors - Biography - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67322-6
ISBN:	9783319673226

Modernity and autobiography in nineteenth-century America = literary representations of communication and transportation technologies /
Dobson, James E.

Modernity and autobiography in nineteenth-century Americaliterary representations of communication and transportation technologies /[electronic resource] :by James E. Dobson. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - vii, 117 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Pivotal studies in the global American literary imagination. - Pivotal studies in the global American literary imagination..

Introduction: The American Modernity Crisis and Technology -- Chapter One: Modernity and the Dialectic of Detachment -- Chapter Two: Henry James' Failed Homecoming -- Chapter Three: Theodore Dreiser, Temporary Homes, and the Compensatory "Commemorative State" -- Chapter Four: The Telephonic Self: Non-Systemic Systems and Autobiographical Self-Representation.

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 speed and distance were registered in this literature's formal innovation. These autobiographical works, Dobson claims, complicate our understanding of the lived experience of time, temporality, and existing accounts of periodization. This study first examines the competing views of space and time in the nineteenth century and then moves to examine how high-speed train travel altered American literary regionalism, the region, and history. Later chapters examine two narratives of failed homecoming that are deeply ambivalent about modernity and technology, Henry James's The American Scene and Theodore Dreiser's A Hoosier Holiday, before a reading of the telephone network as a metaphor for historiography and autobiography in Henry Adams's The Education of Henry Adams.

ISBN: 9783319673226

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-67322-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1201234
Authors
--History and criticism.--Biography

LC Class. No.: PN452 / .D63 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 808.06692

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