Nissa Ren Cannon

Bio

Nissa Cannon is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University and the book reviews editor for the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. Her research focuses on transatlantic modernism, citizenship, and print culture, and she is working on a book on the interwar infrastructure of expatriation. She has recently published on the American Library in Paris in Cultural History and on transatlantic steam travel in Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille in ELN.

Contributions

Lending Books on the Left and Right Banks: Borrowing Practices at the American Library in Paris and Shakespeare and Company

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Gertrude Stein “was disappointed in me when I published Ulysses,” wrote Sylvia Beach in her 1959 memoir; “she even came with Alice to my bookshop to announce that they had transferred their membership to the American Library on the Right Bank.” [1] Stein’s move—from Shakespeare and Company to the American Library in Paris—has sustained the ongoing scholarly and popular representation of the two libraries as rivals, framing membership as an act of allegiance. And yet, the relationship between...

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The Institution as Infrastructure: The International American Chamber of Commerce and Transatlantic Trade

Peer Reviewed
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In a 1913 pamphlet, F. T. Marinetti, best known for his “Manifesto of Futurism,” attributed the twentieth century’s “complete renewal of human sensibility” to a series of technological innovations, including “the telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the train, the bicycle, the motorcycle, the automobile, the ocean liner, the dirigible, the aeroplane, the cinema, [and] the great newspaper.”

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infrastructure institutionalism telegraph technology