Picturing the Postcard

The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium Literature has &;died&; many times&;this book tells the story of its death by postcard. Picturing the Postcard looks to this unlikely source to shed light on our collective, modern-day obsession with new media. The postcard, almost unimaginably now, produced at the end of the nineteenth century the same anxieties and hopes that many people think are unique to twenty-first-century social media such as Facebook or Twitter.

• Format
• 264 pages
• First published
• 2019
• Publishers
• University of Minnesota Press