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Telegraphic Literature, Artificial Subjectivity And The Challenges To Communication Technology In Ella Cheever Thayerâ...
ISSN: 2617 - 0299
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Telegraphic Literature, Artificial Subjectivity And The Challenges To Communication Technology In Ella Cheever Thayerâ...
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Publisher: International Journal Of Linguistics, Literature And Trans..
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Abstract
American literature at the turn of the 20th century has always been responsive to progress through the recurrent trope of men and machines. Narratives on female subjectivity became quite popular as well. However, the literary production on the usage of technology and the construction of a “wired self†has received quite little attention. The objective of this study is twofold. First, to look at the complex alteration of identity through one of the first examples of communication technologies, the Telegraph, in Ella Cheever Thayer’s autofictional novel Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes (1889). Second, is to illustrate female subjectivity through an extremely topical narrative that anticipates the problematic relationship between women and machines in American literature. Through the lens of literature, the researcher will investigate the roots of one of the first means of communication and its ability to change the way in ...
