Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America: Literary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies - Hardcover

by James E. Dobson (Author)

Examines disruptions to the self and the world by new technologies

Deepens our understanding of technology's impact on late-nineteenth-century writing

Highlights the phenomenological and physiological within the modernity crisis

Author Biography

James E. Dobson is Lecturer at Dartmouth College where he conducts research on American literature, autobiography, and the digital humanities. He is the author of essays on Mark Twain, Lucy Larcom, Shirley Jackson, and Ambrose Bierce and several addressing computational methods and text mining.