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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 postcard's 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

"""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 postcard’s 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.

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