Paperwork : Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780812202779
- English fiction-19th century-History and criticism
- Capitalism and literature-English-speaking countries-History-19th century
- Literature publishing-English-speaking countries-History-19th century
- Mass media-English-speaking countries-History-19th century
- American fiction-19th century-History and criticism
- Economics and literature-English-speaking countries
- Paper money-English-speaking countries
- Economics in literature
- Money in literature
- 823/.8093553
- PR868.C25 -- M37 2005eb
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Frequently Cited Texts -- Introduction: Apparitions of Paper -- Chapter 1. Distraction in America: Paper, Money, Poe -- Chapter 2. Off the Map: Stevenson's Polynesian Fiction -- Chapter 3. Transatlantic Connections: "Paper Language" in Melville -- Chapter 4. The Paper State: Collective Breakdown in Dickens's Bleak House -- Chapter 5. Pretending to Read: Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge -- Afterword: The Novel Collective -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Paperwork challenges traditional approaches to print culture and the mass media in the nineteenth century. Kevin McLaughlin argues for a literary-critical approach to the impact of the mass media on literature through a series of detailed interpretations of fiction by Poe, Stevenson, Melville, Dickens, and Hardy.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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