Tapping wires and touching nerves: telegraphy and embodiment in antebellum narratives
As the American telegraph network began webbing across the nation in the 1840s and 1850s, many first users turned to telegraphy as a way of understanding the complexity of the body, categories of identity, and the communities that constituted the nation. My dissertation traces these shifting respons...
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University of Iowa
2015
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6541 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8040&context=etd |