Hands Across the Sea: Situating an Edwardian Greetings Postcard Practice

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Hands Across the Sea: Situating an Edwardian Greetings Postcard Practice

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Auckland University of Technology

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Tuwhera

Description

The Edwardian postcard has been described as the Twitter of its age. Earlier regarded as an insignificant pop-cultural trifle, it has, over the last two decades, begun to receive serious academic attention. This attention has, however, been unevenly spread, and often relies on a forty-year-old narrative of the postcard’s history that locates the postcard as the product of a set of discrete occurrences within postal history. This thesis argues that the lack of a contemporary, broadly contextua...

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Research paper

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Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2013

Creator

Gilderdale, Peter

URL

https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/7175

Related subjects

Postcards / Edwardian / Hands / Symbols / Melodrama / Consumerism / Design / Novelty / Vernacular / Sentimentality / Greetings / Craze / Visuality / Communication / Nostalgia / Emotion / Christmas cards / Popular culture / Multimodal / Business history / History / Design history / New Zealand / Transnational / British disaspora / Anglo-saxonism / Trade unions / Popular poetry / Chromolithography / Taste / Gift-giving / Collecting / Anonymity / Material culture / Printing / Friendship / Immigration / Commonplace / Originality

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