{"product_id":"relays-literature-as-an-epoch-of-the-postal-system-writing-science-9780804732383","title":"Relays Literature as an Epoch of the Postal","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines how one aspect of the social and technological situation of literature-namely, the postal system as a mode of transmission-determined how literature was produced and what was produced within literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This will be important reading for anyone interested in the enormous influence of communication systems on literature and philosophy.\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of tables and figures  Introduction  1. An epoch of the postal system  Part I. The Logistics of the Poet's Dream: 2. On time (registered letterI)  3. Gellert's coup: folding the private letter  4. Post day in Wahlheim  5. Set the controls for the heart of the night  6. Postage  7. Goethe's postal empire  8. The timbre of a calling (attunement)  9. The logistics of the poet's dream: kleist  Part II. On The Way To New Empires 1840-1900: 10. System time (registered letter II)  11. Postage one penny: Rowland Hill's post office reform  12. The standards of writing  13. Hill\/Babbage\/Bentham: the mechanical alliance of 1827  14. Mail in 1855: a misuse of love letters  15. The worl postal system, or the end of the world  16. The postcard  17. The telegraph: land and sea  18. The virgin machine  Part III. Mail Beyond Human Communication: 19. Typewriter and carbon paper  20. The poet's matter in extremis  21. Mail, or the impossibility of writting letters  22. In the presence of noise  Notes  Bibliography.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865941258583,"sku":"9780804732383","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804732383.jpg?v=1722276298","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/relays-literature-as-an-epoch-of-the-postal-system-writing-science-9780804732383","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}