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Chapter 7 - A Connecticut Yankee’s Media Wars
Richard Menke, University of Georgia
Book:

Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900

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30 September 2019

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17 October 2019, pp 158-186
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Summary

In Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889), the encounter between a skilled Yankee mechanic and the novel’s fanciful Middle Ages becomes a confrontation not simply between America and Britain, or between progress and stasis, but between oral and literate cultures. The novel’s perspective and even its origins bear out its connections to a late-nineteenth-century American anthropology that anticipated twentieth-century theories of orality and literacy. Twain’s own aspirations and experiences as a would-be new-media magnate, especially his sponsorship of James Paige’s mechanical compositor, inform his treatment of media history as a realm of antagonism and supersession. In the novel’s chilling final scene, techno-cultural rivalries expand into warfare and mass annihilation, a vision in which electricity and the Gatling gun figure as the doubles of the era’s new media technologies.

46 - Printing Press Technology
from Part V - Printing, Publishing, Textuality
- By Helen Smith
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Book:

The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 341-347
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Part V - Printing, Publishing, Textuality
- By John Jowett
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Book:

The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 323-374
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224 - The Practicalities of Editing: Measure for Measure
from Part XXIII - Printing and Reception History
- By A. R. Braunmuller
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Book:

The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 1621-1627
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47 - Paper
from Part V - Printing, Publishing, Textuality
- By R. Carter Hailey
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Book:

The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 347-354
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45 - The London Book Trade
from Part V - Printing, Publishing, Textuality
- By Mark Bland
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 335-340
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Part XXIII - Printing and Reception History
- By Andrew Murphy
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Book:

The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 1611-1660
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50 - The First Folio
from Part V - Printing, Publishing, Textuality
- By Adam Hooks
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 366-374
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