03747nam 22006015 450 991025507940332120230810192547.03-319-67322-X10.1007/978-3-319-67322-6(CKB)4100000000587675(DE-He213)978-3-319-67322-6(MiAaPQ)EBC5047775(EXLCZ)99410000000058767520170915d2017 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierModernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America Literary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies /by James E. Dobson1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resourcePivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination3-319-67321-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary ImaginationLiterature, Modern19th centuryLiterature and technologyMass media and literatureLiteratureHistory and criticismLiteraturePhilosophyNineteenth-Century LiteratureLiterature and TechnologyLiterary HistoryLiterary TheoryLiterature, Modern19th century.Literature and technology.Mass media and literature.LiteratureHistory and criticism.LiteraturePhilosophy.Nineteenth-Century Literature.Literature and Technology.Literary History.Literary Theory.809.034E. Dobson Jamesauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut987531BOOK9910255079403321Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America2257514UNINA