Picturing the Postcard: A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century

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In Picturing the Postcard, Monica Cure argues that "new media" is as much a discursive object as a material one, and that it is always in dialogue with the media that came before it. Looking to this unlikely source to shed light on our collective, modern-day obsession with new media, she reconstructs the postcard's history and representation in fiction.

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"Picturing the Postcard recovers just how fraught and powerful a communications technology postcards were at the turn of the twentieth century. With a dazzling range of reference, Monica Cure demonstrates the remarkable cultural and literary power of the postcard and rewrites our contemporary narratives of new media."Kate Marshall, author of Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction

"Picturing the Postcard turns our attention to a small yet vital piece of nineteenth-century new media. Tracking the postcards outsized effects, in everything from touristic travel to the rise of feminism, Monica Cure illuminates an often-overlooked item whose cult popularity reveals much about modern life and culture in turn-of-the-century America and Britain."Rachel Teukolsky, Venderbilt University

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Monica Cure is assistant professor of comparative literature at the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University in Los Angeles, California.