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“Excess and Irony in Transatlantic Cable Poetry”
Mark Niemeyersubject
LiteratureExcessPoetry[SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literaturebusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectAtlantic CableArt[ SHS.LITT ] Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureIrony[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/Literaturetechnology and literaturePopular PoetrybusinessComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUSmedia_commondescription
The completion of the first successful transatlantic telegraph link in August 1858 was a major technological triumph which sparked an extreme reaction among the American public. Not only was the laying of the cable one of the most ambitious and costly engineering projects of the nineteenth century, but the celebrations in the United States which ensued in the weeks following the establishment of this instantaneous communications link between Europe and America were unprecedented and may well ...
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1994-09-01 |