Paperwork : Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (193 pages)
- Critical Authors and Issues Series .
- Critical Authors and Issues Series .
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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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.