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Author : Frank Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Penny Post, 1680-1918 written by Frank Staff and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Penny Post written by Frank Staff and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Whyman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199532443
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Pen and the People written by Susan Whyman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing actual dialogues of people discussing subjects as diverse as marriage, poverty, poetry, and the emotional lives of servants, 'The Pen and the People' will be enjoyed by everyone interested in history, literature, and the intimate experiences of ordinary people.
Author : Catherine J Golden
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813047889
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Posting It written by Catherine J Golden and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2009-10-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although "snail mail" may seem old fashioned and outdated in the twenty-first century, Catherine Golden argues that the creation of the Penny Post in Victorian England was just as revolutionary in its time as e-mail and text messages are today. Until Queen Victoria instituted the Postal Reform Act of 1839, mail was a luxury affordable only by the rich. Allowing anyone, from any social class, to send a letter anywhere in the country for only a penny had multiple and profound cultural impacts. Golden demonstrates how cheap postage--which was quickly adopted in other countries--led to a postal "network" that can be viewed as a forerunner of computer-mediated communications. Indeed, the revolution in letter writing of the nineteenth century led to blackmail, frauds, unsolicited mass mailings, and junk mail--problems that remain with us today.
Author : Andrew Pettegree
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300179081
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Invention of News written by Andrew Pettegree and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVLong before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, edicts, ballads, journals, and the first news-sheets, expanding the news community from local to worldwide. This groundbreaking book tracks the history of news in ten countries over the course of four centuries. It evaluates the unexpected variety of ways in which information was transmitted in the premodern world as well as the impact of expanding news media on contemporary events and the lives of an ever-more-informed public. Andrew Pettegree investigates who controlled the news and who reported it; the use of news as a tool of political protest and religious reform; issues of privacy and titillation; the persistent need for news to be current and journalists trustworthy; and people’s changed sense of themselves as they experienced newly opened windows on the world. By the close of the eighteenth century, Pettegree concludes, transmission of news had become so efficient and widespread that European citizens—now aware of wars, revolutions, crime, disasters, scandals, and other events—were poised to emerge as actors in the great events unfolding around them./div
Author : Kate Thomas
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199730911
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
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.
Author : L. Rotunno
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137323809
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
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 208 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.
Author : Gerald Newman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815303961
Total Pages : 1284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837 written by Gerald Newman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1714, king George I ushered in a remarkable 123-year period of energy that changed the face of Britain and ultimately had a profound effect on the modern era. The pioneers of modern capitalism, industry, democracy, literature, and even architecture flourished during this time and their innovations and influence spread throughout the British empire, including the United States. Now this rich cultural period in Britain is effectively surveyed and summarized for quick reference in a first-of-its-kind encyclopedia, which contains entries by British, Canadian, American, and Australian scholars specializing in everything from finance and the fine arts to politics and patent law. More than 380 illustrations, mostly rare engravings, enhance the coverage, which runs the whole gamut of political, economic, literary, intellectual, artistic, commercial, and social life, and spotlights some 600 prominent individuals and families.
Author : Simone Fari
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137406526
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Victorian Telegraphy Before Nationalization written by Simone Fari and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers an analysis of the technological and entrepreneurial features of the Victorian telegraph service, together with the companies which ran it until nationalization in 1869. It shows a historical reconstruction mainly based on original and unedited documents belonging to a variety of archives.
Author : William Lewis Sachse
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521081719
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Restoration England 1660-1689 written by William Lewis Sachse and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1971-07-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Josef Lewis Altholz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521521123
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Victorian England 1837-1901 written by Josef Lewis Altholz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-22 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 2,500 bibliographical entries covering most aspects of the history of Victorian England.
Author : Sally Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415668514
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Victorian Britain written by Sally Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this encyclopedia serves as an overview and point of entry to the complex interdisciplinary field of Victorian studies. The signed articles, which cover persons, events, institutions, topics, groups and artefacts in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901, have been written by authorities in the field and contain bibliographies to provide guidelines for further research. The work is intended for undergraduates and the general reader, and also as a starting point for graduates who wish to explore new fields.
Author : Andrew Franta
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421427516
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Systems Failure written by Andrew Franta and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unraveling, literature arrives at its most penetrating insights about the structure of social life.
Author : Stuart Sherman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226752761
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (527 download)
Download or read book Telling Time written by Stuart Sherman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Telling Time, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged with this technological breakthrough, enabling authors to recount the new kind of time by which England was learning to live and work.
Author : Henry Laurens
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570034657
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Papers of Henry Laurens written by Henry Laurens and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concluding volume of a prestigious documentary edition; This, the sixteenth and final volume of The Papers of Henry Laurens, covers the last ten years of the statesman's life. During this period, Henry Laurens spent a hectic twenty-two months as a peace commissioner traveling between Paris and London, conferring with British ministers and his colleagues on the peace commission. At the same time, Laurens was coping with the grief of losing his eldest son, John Laurens, in battle, family conflicts over a proposed marriage between his elder daughter and a French fortune hunter, and his own poor health. This mixture of public and private concerns continued throughout his stay in Europe, as the commissioners attempted to negotiate a final peace treaty and a trade agreement with former allies and foes. In January 1785, Laurens returned to South Carolina, where he devoted the remainder of his life to personal affairs. Despite encouragement to return to public service, Laurens remained a private citizen with an active interest in the progress of his state, In his later years he recommended an end to the importation of slaves and diversification of the economy. Laurens died on December
Author : Jill Bergman
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817319360
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America written by Jill Bergman and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America probes how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment. Turning Victorian notions of propriety and a woman's place on its ear, this essay collection studies Gilman's writings and the manner in which they push back against societal norms and reject male-dominated confines of space. The contributors present readings of some of Gilman's most significant works. By examining the settings in "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Herland, for example, the volume analyzes Gilman's construction of place, her representations of male dominance and female subjugation, and her analysis of the rules and obligations that women feel in conforming to their assigned place: the home. Additionally, this volume delineates female resistance to this conformity. Contributors highlight how Gilman's narrators often choose resistance over obedient captivity, breaking free of the spaces imposed upon them in order to seek or create their own habitats. Through biographical interpretations of Gilman's work that focus on the author's own renouncement of her "natural" role of wife and mother, contributors trace her relocation to the American West in an attempt to appropriate the masculinized spaces of work and social organization. --
Author : Bernhard Siegert
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804732383
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Relays written by Bernhard Siegert and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how one aspect of the social and technological situation of literature--namely, the postal system--determined how literature was produced and what was produced within literature. Language itself has the structure of a relay, where what is transmitted depends on a prior withholding. The social arrangements and technologies for achieving this transmission thus have had a particularly powerful impact on the imagination of literature as a medium. The book has three parts. The first part reconstructs the postal conditions of classic and Romantic literature: the invention of postage in the seventeenth century, which transformed the postal system into a service meant to be used by the population (instead of by the prince alone); the sexualization of letter writing, which was introduced in the middle of the eighteenth century and changed the reading of a letter into an interpretation of intimate confessions of the soul; and Goethes turning of this new ontology of the letter into a logistics of literature whereby literary authorship was constructed by means of postal logistics, with the precision of engineering. The second part analyzes nineteenth-century postal innovations that facilitated communication through letters and examines how literary works were able to live off such communication. These innovations included the reform of the post office; the invention of the postage stamp; the Universal Postal Union, which subjected letter writing to an economy of materials and uniform standards; and the telegraph and the telephone, which surpassed literature in terms of speed, economy, and analog-signal processing. In the third part, on the basis of a close reading of Franz Kafkas letters to his typist-fiancée, the author demonstrates how postal logistics of love and authorship have worked in the era of modern postal systems and technical media. Kafkas correspondence is deciphered as a "war of nerves waged by means of all available techniques and conditions of transmission.
