Picturing the PostcardThe first full length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium Literature has died many timesthis book tells the story of its death by postcard. Picturing the Postcard looks to this unlikely source to shed light on our collective, modern day obsession with new media. The postcard, almost unimaginably now, produced at the end of the nineteenth century the same anxieties and hopes that many people think are unique to twenty first