Print, chaos, and complexity : Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century media culture

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Print, chaos, and complexity : Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century media culture

Title remainder

Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century media culture

Statement of responsibility

Mark E. Wildermuth

Creator

• Wildermuth, Mark E., 1956-
• Wildermuth, Mark E., 1956-

Subject

• Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Philosophy
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Political and social views
• Mimesis in literature
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
• Printing -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
• Printing -- Social aspects
• Transmission of texts
• Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
• Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century

Language

eng

Summary

"This book describes how eighteenth-century awareness of the interplay between fixity and instability in printed texts demonstrates the role print played in developing Samuel Johnson's perception of print culture's impact on human beings ethically, politically, and aesthetically. Drawing on the scholarship of Adrian Johns and David McKitterick, the study traces the evolution and continuity of Johnson's ideas in these areas by describing the importance of print mediation for Johnson's conception of the related epistemological and ethical dilemmas facing his generation from the Restoration to the late eighteenth century"--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

PR3537.P5

LC item number

W55 2008

Literary form

non fiction