Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I The Letter; 1 "The Conscious Presence of a Central Intellect": British Postal History; 2 "The simple transcripts of natural feeling": Signifiers of Presence in Epistolary Practice; 3 "The ghosts of all my impertinent letters": Presence in Crisis; Part II The Postcard; 4 "The self-conscious air of the reproduced": Postcard History; 5 "A photo of the ship that I am now on": Signifiers of Presence, Intimacy and Privacy in Postcard Correspondence; Part III Electronic Mail
6 A Brief History of Electronic Mail7 "In my sickness": Constructing Presence on the Cybermind Discussion Group; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Moves between close readings of letters, postcards and emails, and investigations of the material, technological infrastructures of these forms, to answer the question: How does presence function as an aesthetic and rhetorical strategy within networked communication practices?
