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The Mediated Mind : Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823279845
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Mediated MindLOC classification:
  • P96.E25 .Z544 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- THE MEDIATED MIND -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: From Paper to Pixel -- 1. Temperate Media: Ephemera and Performance in the Making of Mass Culture -- 2. Tobacco Papers, Holmes's Pipe, Cigarette Cards, and Information Addiction -- 3. Ink, Mass Culture, and the Unconscious -- 4. "Dreaming True": Playback, Immediacy, and "Du Maurierness" -- 5. "A Form of Reverie, a Malady of Dreaming": Dorian Gray, Personality, and Mass Culture -- Conclusion: Unknown Publics -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: This book describes new affective and material modes of print media consumption that emerged in the nineteenth century, when ephemeral printed material and objects became part of everyday modern life. It offers a history of our own moment of digital absorption, information addiction, and social media obsession.
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Cover -- THE MEDIATED MIND -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: From Paper to Pixel -- 1. Temperate Media: Ephemera and Performance in the Making of Mass Culture -- 2. Tobacco Papers, Holmes's Pipe, Cigarette Cards, and Information Addiction -- 3. Ink, Mass Culture, and the Unconscious -- 4. "Dreaming True": Playback, Immediacy, and "Du Maurierness" -- 5. "A Form of Reverie, a Malady of Dreaming": Dorian Gray, Personality, and Mass Culture -- Conclusion: Unknown Publics -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

This book describes new affective and material modes of print media consumption that emerged in the nineteenth century, when ephemeral printed material and objects became part of everyday modern life. It offers a history of our own moment of digital absorption, information addiction, and social media obsession.

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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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