LEADER 03747nam 22006015 450 001 9910255079403321 005 20230810192547.0 010 $a3-319-67322-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-67322-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000000587675 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-67322-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5047775 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000587675 100 $a20170915d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aModernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America $eLiterary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies /$fby James E. Dobson 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aPivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination 311 $a3-319-67321-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aThis book examines temporal and formal disruptions found in American autobiographical narratives produced during the end of the nineteenth century. It argues that disruptions were primarily the result of encounters with new communication and transportation technologies. Through readings of major autobiographical works of the period, James E. Dobson argues that the range of affective responses to writing, communicating, and traveling at increasing speed and distance were registered in this literature?s formal innovation. These autobiographical works, Dobson claims, complicate our understanding of the lived experience of time, temporality, and existing accounts of periodization. This study first examines the competing views of space and time in the nineteenth century and then moves to examine how high-speed train travel altered American literary regionalism, the region, and history. Later chapters examine two narratives of failed homecoming that are deeply ambivalent about modernity and technology, Henry James?s The American Scene and Theodore Dreiser?s A Hoosier Holiday, before a reading of the telephone network as a metaphor for historiography and autobiography in Henry Adams?s The Education of Henry Adams. 410 0$aPivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x19th century 606 $aLiterature and technology 606 $aMass media and literature 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aLiterature and Technology 606 $aLiterary History 606 $aLiterary Theory 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x19th century. 615 0$aLiterature and technology. 615 0$aMass media and literature. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 14$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aLiterature and Technology. 615 24$aLiterary History. 615 24$aLiterary Theory. 676 $a809.034 700 $aE. Dobson$b James$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0987531 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255079403321 996 $aModernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America$92257514 997 $aUNINA