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Paperwork : Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Authors and Issues SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (193 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812202779
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: PaperworkDDC classification:
  • 823/.8093553
LOC classification:
  • PR868.C25 -- M37 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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