Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America
Literary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies
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Beschreibung
Examines disruptions to the self and the world by new technologies
Deepens our understanding of technology’s impact on late-nineteenth-century writing
Highlights the phenomenological and physiological within the modernity crisis
Examines disruptions to the self and the world by new technologies Deepens our understanding of technology’s impact on late-nineteenth-century writing Highlights the phenomenological and physiological within the modernity crisis
Autor*in
James E. Dobson
Themen in »Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America«
life-writing travel writing travel memoir neurological modernity American modernity crisis affect theory Henry James Theodore Dreiser The Autobiography of Mark Twain Phenomenology and autobiography Railroad travel and space-time compression spatial distancing in "Rip Van Winkle" modernity, alienation, and Henry James' The American Scene temporal confusion and A Hoosier Holiday the effect of the telephone on the self