The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium
(University of Minnesota Press, 2018)
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, author of Picture World: Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media
Also available in a new Romanian translation by Dana Badulescu.
In a review in the Observator Cultural, Doina Ioanid calls the book “an original monograph, one that is an interesting and enjoyable read.”
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Commissioned articles
“Tweeting by mail: The postcard’s stormy birth.” Op-ed in the Los Angeles Times
“In this age of Instagram and Twitter, it is easy to forget how recently postcards were a principal way of sending images and short messages….”
“Little Women: Our little sacrifices.” Features article in the Church Times
“Monica Cure explores the ethics and theology that underpin Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women”
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Monica is available for commissioned articles on a range of topics including media history, humanities education, Christian theology in culture, classic literature, contemporary Romanian literature and culture, dialogue, translation.