Mediating Modernity examines this probing question: "What happens to the writing of a printed text when the phonograph and cinematograph--and both names refer, not accidentally, to writing--are able to fix the hitherto unwriteable data flow of time and the visual image?" In her study of literary modernism, Stefanie Harris counters existing scholarship by studying literature as a part, rather than an opponent, of its contemporary mediascape, a term used to define not only the existing and emerging technologies that serve to record and transmit information, but also, more...