| Contents |
What's new about new media? / Geoffrey B. Pingree and Lisa Gitelman -- Zograscopes, virtual reality, and the mapping of polite society in eighteenth-century England / Erin C. Blake -- Heads of state: profiles and politics in Jeffersonian America / Wendy Bellion -- Children of media, children as media: optical telegraphs, Indian pupils, and Joseph Lancaster's system for cultural replication / Patricia Crain -- Telegraphy's corporeal fictions / Katherine Stubbs -- From phantom image to perfect vision: physiological optics, commercial photography, and the popularization of the stereoscope / Laura Burd Schiavo -- Sinful network or divine service: competing meanings of the telephone in Amish country / Diane Zimmerman Umble -- Souvenir foils: on the status of print at the origin of recorded sound / Lisa Gitelman -- R.L. Garner and the rise of the Edison phonograph in evolutionary philology / Gregory Radick -- Scissorizing and scrapbooks: nineteenth-century reading, remaking, and recirculating / Ellen Gruber Garvey -- Media on display: a telegraphic history of early American cinema / Paul Young. |
