Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: British Literature: Victorian to Modernist
1: The Telegraphic Principle in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
2: The Interface as Cultural Form: Conrad's Sea Captains
3: After Electromagnetism
4: Starry Sky: Wyndham Lewis and Mina Loy
5: Giving the Sign: Katherine Mansfield's Stories
Part II: Case-Studies
6: Kafka's Strindberg
7: Women Spies
8: Flying Africans, Black Pilots
Conclusion

About the Author

David Trotter is an Emeritus Professor of English literature at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of the British Academy. He has written widely about nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture, and about the history of theory of media.

Reviews

[T]his is a fascinating examination of how we communicate with Trotter's humour and the chapters on signalling being the stand-out aspects of this work.
*H-F Dessain, Bristish Association for Victorian Students*

Dazzling in its command of both history and literature, The Literature of Connection accomplishes its purpose, which, as Trotter writes in the conclusion, is "to demonstrate that the world was ready—indeed eager—to be connected long before the arrival of the technologies" needed to accomplish a "culture of connectivity" (p. 235). Symbols of restriction and freedom, from signal fires and semaphore on English coasts to airplanes conveying Black airmen, communicate through untold miles and through spaces measured only by human voices speaking face-to-face.
*L. A. Brewer, CHOICE*