Download or read book Postal Pleasures written by Kate Thomas and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With readings of novels by Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Henry James, and others, this work explores the relationship between illicit sex and the postal service in Victorian Britain.
Download or read book Queer Networks written by Miriam Kienle and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the queer correspondence art of Ray Johnson disrupted art world conventions and anticipated today’s highly networked culture Once regarded as “New York’s most famous unknown artist,” Ray Johnson was a highly visible outlier in the art world, his mail art practice reflecting the changing social relations and politics of queer communities in the 1960s. A vital contribution to the growing scholarship on this enigmatic artist, Queer Networks analyzes how Johnson’s practice sought to undermine the dominant mechanisms of the art market and gallery system in favor of unconventional social connections. Utilizing the postal service as his primary means of producing and circulating art, Johnson cultivated an international community of friends and collaborators through which he advanced his idiosyncratic body of work. Applying both queer theory and network studies, Miriam Kienle explores how Johnson’s radical correspondence art established new modes of connectivity that fostered queer sensibilities and ran counter to the conventional methods by which artists were expected to develop their reputation. While Johnson was significantly involved with the Pop, conceptual, and neo-Dada art movements, Queer Networks crucially underscores his resistance to traditional art historical systems of categorization and their emphasis on individual mastery. Highlighting his alternative modes of community building and playful antagonism toward art world protocols, Kienle demonstrates how Ray Johnson’s correspondence art offers new ways of envisioning togetherness in today’s highly commodified and deeply networked world.
Download or read book Postal Plots in British Fiction 1840 1898 written by L. Rotunno and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they threatened the definition and development of the Victorian literary professional.
Download or read book Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell written by Dr Lesa Scholl and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on theories of space and place, this collection examines the global reach of Elizabeth Gaskell’s influence and places her work within the narrative of British letters and narrative identity. In keeping with the theme of progress and change, the essays follow parallel narratives that acknowledge both the angst and nostalgia produced by industrial progress and the excitement and awe occasioned by the potential of the empire.
Download or read book Modernist Informatics written by James Purdon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between steam and cybernetics lies a missing phase in the history of information culture. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, national governments and writers of fiction alike began to take an interest in information not simply as fact, nor yet as effortlessly transmissible data, but as an unusual and destabilizing new phenomenon. Modernist Informatics mines this burgeoning bureaucracy and marshals an array of archival evidence to detail the varied reactions of writers struggling in their lives and works to make sense of this strange new age of information. As James Purdon recounts in this fascinating study, many people, including Joseph Conrad and Walter Benjamin, felt the presence of information as an interruption rather than an enhancement of meaningful communication. Its intrusion provoked strong reactions from novelists such as Arnold Bennett, Ford Madox Ford, and Graham Greene. Each regarded the prying eyes of information society with increasing unease, as they struggled to overcome the division of daily existence between a fixed entity on a ledger and the imaginative possibility of everyday life. For others, such as Elizabeth Bowen, the nascent information age offered new opportunities for transforming experience into prose. Relating these varied, complex reactions and how they found their way into fiction, Purdon shows how historical changes shaped the narratives at his study's core and gave birth to a range of new informatic phenomena: passports and identity papers; the dossiers of the Mass-Observation movement; the literal and figurative blackout procedures of the Blitz; and the government-sponsored "information films" of John Grierson. Modernist Informatics ingeniously traces how information culture seeped into everyday lives, forging a relationship of entanglement as well as antagonism-a tension that was central to the shaping of modernity.
Download or read book Catalogue Supplement written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pleasure Guide to Paris written by George Day and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Union Postal Clerk the Postal Transport Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Outlook in South Africa for Business Pleasure Health and Settlement written by South African National Union and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Twittering Machine written by Richard Seymour and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant probe into the political and psychological effects of our changing relationship with social media Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies, desires and frailties into data, and returning them to us as a commodity experience. The Twittering Machine is an unflinching view into the calamities of digital life: the circus of online trolling, flourishing alt-right subcultures, pervasive corporate surveillance, and the virtual data mines of Facebook and Google where we spend considerable portions of our free time. In this polemical tour de force, Richard Seymour shows how the digital world is changing the ways we speak, write, and think. Through journalism, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users, developers, security experts and others, Seymour probes the human side of the machine, asking what we’re getting out of it, and what we’re getting into. Social media held out the promise that we could make our own history–to what extent did we choose the nightmare that it has become?
Download or read book Gibbons Stamp Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guilty Pleasures written by Hugh McIntosh and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guilty pleasures in one’s reading habits are nothing new. Late-nineteenth-century American literary culture even championed the idea that popular novels need not be great. Best-selling novels arrived in the public sphere as at once beloved and contested objects, an ambivalence that reflected and informed America’s cultural insecurity. This became a matter of nationhood as well as aesthetics: the amateurism of popular narratives resonated with the discourse of new nationhood. In Guilty Pleasures, Hugh McIntosh examines reactions to best-selling fiction in the United States from 1850 to 1920, including reader response to such best-sellers as Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ben Hur, and Trilby as well as fictional representations—from Trollope to Baldwin—of American culture’s lack of artistic greatness. Drawing on a transatlantic archive of contemporary criticism, urban display, parody, and advertising, Guilty Pleasures thoroughly documents how the conflicted attitude toward popular novels shaped these ephemeral modes of response. Paying close attention to this material history of novel reading, McIntosh reveals how popular fiction’s unique status as socially saturating and aesthetically questionable inspired public reflection on what it meant to belong to a flawed national community.
Download or read book The Post written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Keyes Hand book of Northern Pleasure Travel written by George L. Keyes and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Pleasure Pilgrim in South America written by C. D. Mackellar and published by London, J. Murray. This book was released on 1908 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Union Postal Clerk written by George A. Donnelly and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Saturday Evening Post written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
