Index

Series Foreword      vii

Acknowledgments      ix

Introduction: What's New About New Media?     xi
     Geoffrey B. Pingree and Lisa Gitelman

Documents       xxiii

 1   Zograscopes, Virtual Reality, and the Mapping of Polite Society in
     Eighteenth-Century England    1
     Erin C. Blake

 2   Heads of State: Profiles and Politics in Jeffersonian America  31
     Wedy Bellion

 3   Children of Media, Children as Media: Optical Telegraphs, Indian Pupils, and
     Joseph Lancaster's System for Cultural Replication   61
     Patricia Crain

 4   Telegraphy's Corporeal Fictions  91
     Katherine Stubbs

 5   From Phantom Image to Perfect Vision: Physiological Optics, Commercial
     Photography, and the Popularization of the Stereoscope   113
     Laura Burd Schiavo

 6   Sinful Network or Divine Service: Competing Meanings of the T'elephone
     in Amish Country      139
     Diane Zimmerman Umble

 7   Souvenir Foils: On the Status of Print at the Origin of Recorded
     Sound      157
     Lisa Gitelman

 8   R. L. Garner and the Rise of the Edison Phonograph in Evolutionary
     4 Philology     175
     Gregory Radick

 9   Scissorizing and Scrapbooks: Nineteenth-Century Reading, Remaking,
     and Recirculating     207
     Ellen Gruber Garvey

10   Media on Display: A Telegraphic History of Early American Cinema  229
     Paul Young

Contributors      265

Index      267