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New media, 1740-1915
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New media, 1740-1915

Author: Lisa Gitelman; Geoffrey B Pingree
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
Series: Media in transition
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Lisa Gitelman; Geoffrey B Pingree
ISBN: 0262072459 9780262072458
OCLC Number: 50252046
Description: xxxiii, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: What's new about new media? / Geoffrey B. Pingree and Lisa Gitelman -- Zograscopes, virtual reality, and the mapping of polite society in eighteenth-century England / Erin C. Blake -- Heads of state: profiles and politics in Jeffersonian America / Wendy Bellion -- Children of media, children as media: optical telegraphs, Indian pupils, and Joseph Lancaster's system for cultural replication / Patricia Crain -- Telegraphy's corporeal fictions / Katherine Stubbs -- From phantom image to perfect vision: physiological optics, commercial photography, and the popularization of the stereoscope / Laura Burd Schiavo -- Sinful network or divine service: competing meanings of the telephone in Amish country / Diane Zimmerman Umble -- Souvenir foils: on the status of print at the origin of recorded sound / Lisa Gitelman -- R.L. Garner and the rise of the Edison phonograph in evolutionary philology / Gregory Radick -- Scissorizing and scrapbooks: nineteenth-century reading, remaking, and recirculating / Ellen Gruber Garvey -- Media on display: a telegraphic history of early American cinema / Paul Young.
Series Title: Media in transition
Responsibility: edited by Lisa Gitelman and Geoffrey B. Pingree.
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