Seven stories of threatening speech : women's suffrage meets machine code / / Ruth A. Miller

• Autore: Miller Ruth Austin <1975->
• Pubblicazione: Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Disciplina: 324.6/23097309034
• Soggetto topico: Women - Suffrage - United States - History - 19th century; Speeches, addresses, etc., American - History and criticism; Suffragists - United States - Language; English language - Political aspects - United States
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Part One : A Framework for Inquiry -- Chapter One : Threatening Speech -- Chapter Two : Machine Code, Systems, and Environments -- Chapter Three : Agency -- Chapter Four : Women's Suffrage -- Conclusion to Part One: Ignoring Conventions -- Part Two : Reading Seven Stories of Suffragists' Speech -- Chapter Five : Antisecular Speech -- Chapter Six : Monsters (a Bridge) -- Chapter Seven : Repetitive Speech -- Chapter Eight : Witches (a Bridge) -- Chapter Nine : Insane Speech and Its Remedies -- Chapter Ten : Rampant Theory (a Bridge) -- Chapter Eleven : Dream Speech -- Conclusion to Part Two: Depopulating Environments -- Part Three : A Set of New Questions -- Chapter Twelve : Anachronistic Computation -- Chapter Thirteen : Toward the Beginnings of aTheory of Electoral Politics -- Conclusion to Part Three: Telegraph Girls -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Treating language as a type of machine code opens new avenues for the study of history and politics.
• Titolo autorizzato: Seven stories of threatening speech
• ISBN: 1-283-34086-0; 9786613340863; 0-472-02778-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817590903321
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