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“Much Ado About Something: Nineteenth-Century American Writers and the Atlantic Cable”
2022
Cet article décrit et analyse les réactions de plusieurs grands auteurs américains (Thoreau, Longfellow, Irving, Melville, Whittier, Whitman et Emerson) au succès en 1858 du premier lien télégraphique transatlantique entre les États-Unis et l’Europe. Ces réponses à cet exploit technologique apparaissaient dans des journaux privés, des lettres, des éditoriaux et des notes marginales; elles étaient parfois incorporées dans des œuvres littéraires. Dans presque tous les cas, les réactions peuvent...
“The Transatlantic Cable in Popular Poetry”
1993
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“Excess and Irony in Transatlantic Cable Poetry”
1994
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 ...
“Creating a National Heritage, Denying a National Crisis: The Atlantic CableCelebrations and Atlantic Cable Poetry”
2000
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“Much Ado About Something: American Writers and the Atlantic Cable of 1858”
2008
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“Displaced Representation and Nationalistic Appropriation: Illustrating the Atlantic Cable Project of 1858”
2013
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“Creating a National Heritage, Denying a National Crisis: The Atlantic Cable Celebrations and Atlantic Cable Poetry”
1998
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