Seven stories of threatening speech : women's suffrage meets machine code

Seven stories of threatening speech : women's suffrage meets machine code / Ruth A. Miller.

Ruth A. Miller demonstrates the potential of taking nonhuman linguistic activity-such as the running of machine code-as an analytical model. Via a lively discussion of 19th-century pro- and antisuffragists, Miller tells a new computational story in which language becomes a thing that executes physic...

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Main Author: Miller, Ruth Austin, 1975- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011.
Subjects:
1800 - 1899
Women > Suffrage > United States > History > 19th century.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American > History and criticism.
Suffragists > United States > Language.
English language > Political aspects > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Politics and Government.
English language > Political aspects
Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Women > Suffrage
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • ""Contents""; ""Part One : A Framework for Inquiry""; ""Chapter One : Threatening Speech""; ""Chapter Two : Machine Code, Systems, and Environments""; ""Chapter Three : Agency""; ""Chapter Four : Womenâ€?s Suffrage""; ""Conclusion to Part One: Ignoring Conventions""; ""Part Two : Reading Seven Stories of Suffragistsâ€? Speech ""; ""Chapter Five : Antisecular Speech""; ""Chapter Six : Monsters (a Bridge)""; ""Chapter Seven : Repetitive Speech""; ""Chapter Eight : Witches (a Bridge)""; ""Chapter Nine : Insane Speech and Its Remedies""; ""Chapter Ten : Rampant Theory (a Bridge)""
  • ""Chapter Eleven : Dream Speech""""Conclusion to Part Two: Depopulating Environments""; ""Part Three : A Set of New Questions""; ""Chapter Twelve : Anachronistic Computation""; ""Chapter Thirteen : Toward the Beginnings of aTheory of Electoral Politics""; ""Conclusion to Part Three: Telegraph Girls""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

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