In 1844 the American press greeted the telegraph as “the first d… — "Joyce, Mallarmé and the Press", in The Sewanee Review, Vol.62, No.1, Jan-March (1954), p 50, reprinted in The Interior Landscape The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, (1969), p 16.

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In 1844 the American press greeted the telegraph as “the first definite pulsation of the real nervous system of the world.”

"Joyce, Mallarmé and the Press", in The Sewanee Review, Vol.62, No.1, Jan-March (1954), p 50, reprinted in The Interior Landscape The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, (1969), p 16.

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Year: 1954

Chapter: Telegraph