The Literature of Connection Signal, Medium, Interface, 1850-1950

by Trotter, David

• ISBN13: 9780198850472
• ISBN10: 0198850476
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-08-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

David Trotter, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge

David Trotter is an Emeritus Professor of English literature at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of the British Academy. He has written widely about nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture, and about the history of theory of media.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: British Literature: Victorian to Modernist
1. The Telegraphic Principle in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
2. The Interface as Cultural Form: Conrad's Sea Captains
3. After Electromagnetism
4. Starry Sky: Wyndham Lewis and Mina Loy
5. Giving the Sign: Katherine Mansfield's Stories
Part II: Case-Studies
6. Kafka's Strindberg
7. Women Spies
8. Flying Africans, Black Pilots
Conclusion