Print Tech in Scotland Amp Amer

This book investigates the mediation of popular-political culture in Scotland and America, from the transatlantic religious revivals known as the Great Awakening to the U.S. presidential election of 1800. By focusing on Scotland and America, this book aims to increase our understanding of how tensions (ethnic, racial, economic, political, aesthetic, and religious) within these corresponding political and cultural arenas altered prints meaning and power as an instrument of empire and nation building.

List of contents

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Noise (and Noise Abatement) in Scotland and America
Chapter Two: To "Bring Forward a General Scream": George Whitefield, Mob Rules, and the Noise of Religious Enthusiasm
Chapter Three: The "Torrent's Roar": Agricultural Improvement, Colonial Administration, and the Reorganization of Noise in James Macpherson's The Poems of Ossian
Chapter Four: Creating a "Perfect Union of Opinion": The Polygraph, Thomas Jefferson, and the Presidential Election of 1800
Chapter Five: "Periodical Visitations": Crises of Representation in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn
Bibliography
About the Author
Index

About the author

By Louis Kirk McAuley

Product details

• Authors: Louis Kirk McAuley
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2013
• EAN: 9781611485431
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-543-1
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies