Literary Regionalism and Mark Twain's Telephone

Literary Regionalism and Mark Twain's Telephone

Focusing on the work of Mark Twain, this article considers the convergence of two late nineteenth-century voice technologies: dialect writing and the telephone. The racial and rural dialects transcribed by regionalist fiction offered mostly white, urban, middle-class readers entertaining encounters...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:The Mark Twain Annual. - Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. - 15(2017), 1, Seite 106-125
1. Verfasser: Keck, Sean (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2017
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:The Mark Twain Annual
Schlagworte:dialect technology Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court sound studies Applied sciences Behavioral sciences Physical sciences Political science Biological sciences mehr... Social sciences History Law
LEADER 01000caa a22002652 4500
001 JST127902252
003 DE-627
005 20240625110534.0
007 cr uuu---uuuuu
008 210116s2017 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c
024 7 |a 10.5325/marktwaij.15.1.0106  |2 doi 
035 |a (DE-627)JST127902252 
035 |a (JST)marktwaij.15.1.0106 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rakwb 
041 |a eng 
100 1 |a Keck, Sean  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
245 1 0 |a Literary Regionalism and Mark Twain's Telephone 
264 1 |c 2017 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a Computermedien  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a Online-Ressource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
520 |a Focusing on the work of Mark Twain, this article considers the convergence of two late nineteenth-century voice technologies: dialect writing and the telephone. The racial and rural dialects transcribed by regionalist fiction offered mostly white, urban, middle-class readers entertaining encounters with "other" voices from a safe remove. The rhetoric surrounding the telephone's development promised that it would one day fulfill the same function in real time. But "the ideological power of dialect literature" (Gavin Jones) reinforced stereotypes rather than conveying geographically or socially distant voices to readers. Similarly, despite early fantasies of cross-cultural communication, the telephone facilitated socially insular conversation as it became systematized. Twain, however, emphasized the numerous miscommunications of the emergent telephone. Especially in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), he debunked the myth of cultural contact promulgated by dialect writing and telephony by making readers question their ears. 
540 |a Copyright © 2017 by The Pennsylvania State University. All rights reserved. 
650 4 |a dialect 
650 4 |a technology 
650 4 |a Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 
650 4 |a A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 
650 4 |a sound studies 
650 4 |a Applied sciences  |x Technology  |x Communications technology  |x Telecommunications equipment  |x Telephones 
650 4 |a Behavioral sciences  |x Anthropology  |x Ethnology  |x Ethnolinguistics  |x Dialectology  |x Dialects  |x Regional dialects 
650 4 |a Physical sciences  |x Physics  |x Acoustics  |x Sound 
650 4 |a Political science  |x Political philosophy  |x Political ideologies  |x Regionalism 
650 4 |a Biological sciences  |x Biology  |x Developmental biology  |x Human developmental stages  |x Childhood  |x Infancy 
650 4 |a Behavioral sciences  |x Psychology  |x Cognitive psychology  |x Emotion  |x Emotional states  |x Nostalgia 
650 4 |a Social sciences  |x Communications  |x Narratives 
650 4 |a History  |x Historical methodology  |x Historiography  |x History of science  |x History of technology 
650 4 |a Social sciences  |x Communications  |x Communication skills  |x Language skills  |x Reading 
650 4 |a Law  |x Civil law  |x Property law  |x Intellectual property law  |x Industrial property  |x Inventions 
650 4 |a Applied sciences  |x Technology  |x Communications technology  |x Telecommunications equipment  |x Telephones 
650 4 |a Behavioral sciences  |x Anthropology  |x Ethnology  |x Ethnolinguistics  |x Dialectology  |x Dialects  |x Regional dialects 
650 4 |a Physical sciences  |x Physics  |x Acoustics  |x Sound 
650 4 |a Political science  |x Political philosophy  |x Political ideologies  |x Regionalism 
650 4 |a Biological sciences  |x Biology  |x Developmental biology  |x Human developmental stages  |x Childhood  |x Infancy 
650 4 |a Behavioral sciences  |x Psychology  |x Cognitive psychology  |x Emotion  |x Emotional states  |x Nostalgia 
650 4 |a Social sciences  |x Communications  |x Narratives 
650 4 |a History  |x Historical methodology  |x Historiography  |x History of science  |x History of technology 
650 4 |a Social sciences  |x Communications  |x Communication skills  |x Language skills  |x Reading 
650 4 |a Law  |x Civil law  |x Property law  |x Intellectual property law  |x Industrial property  |x Inventions 
655 4 |a research-article 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t The Mark Twain Annual  |d Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003  |g 15(2017), 1, Seite 106-125  |w (DE-627)584402562  |w (DE-600)2461496-8  |x 17562597  |7 nnns 
773 1 8 |g volume:15  |g year:2017  |g number:1  |g pages:106-125 
856 4 0 |u https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/marktwaij.15.1.0106  |3 Volltext 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.5325/marktwaij.15.1.0106  |3 Volltext 
912 |a GBV_USEFLAG_A 
912 |a SYSFLAG_A 
912 |a GBV_JST 
912 |a GBV_ILN_11 
912 |a GBV_ILN_20 
912 |a GBV_ILN_22 
912 |a GBV_ILN_24 
912 |a GBV_ILN_31 
912 |a GBV_ILN_39 
912 |a GBV_ILN_40 
912 |a GBV_ILN_60 
912 |a GBV_ILN_62 
912 |a GBV_ILN_63 
912 |a GBV_ILN_65 
912 |a GBV_ILN_70 
912 |a GBV_ILN_100 
912 |a GBV_ILN_110 
912 |a GBV_ILN_120 
912 |a GBV_ILN_165 
912 |a GBV_ILN_285 
912 |a GBV_ILN_374 
912 |a GBV_ILN_702 
912 |a GBV_ILN_1200 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2001 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2003 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2005 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2006 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2007 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2008 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2009 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2010 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2011 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2014 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2015 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2018 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2020 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2021 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2026 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2027 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2044 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2050 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2056 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2057 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2061 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2107 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2190 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2875 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2949 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2950 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4012 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4035 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4037 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4046 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4112 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4126 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4242 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4251 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4305 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4306 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4307 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4322 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4323 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4325 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4335 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4346 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4392 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4393 
951 |a AR 
952 |d 15  |j 2017  |e 1  |h 106-125