Paperwork - Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age

Informationen zum Autor Kevin McLaughlin Klappentext "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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Frequently Cited Texts Introduction: Apparitions of Paper 1. Distraction in America: Paper, Money, Poe 2. Off the Map: Stevenson's Polynesian Fiction 3. Transatlantic Connections: "Paper Language" in Melville 4. The Paper State: Collective Breakdown in Dickens's Bleak House 5. Pretending to Read: Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge Afterword: The Novel Collective Notes Selected Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Kevin McLaughlin
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2005
• EAN: 9780812238884
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-3888-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Critical Authors and Issues; Critical Authors and Issues; Critical authors & issues
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies