Paperwork : fiction and mass mediacy in the Paper Age

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Paperwork : fiction and mass mediacy in the Paper Age

Title remainder

fiction and mass mediacy in the Paper Age

Statement of responsibility

Kevin McLaughlin

Creator

• McLaughlin, Kevin, 1959-

Subject

• Capitalism and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century
• Paper money -- English-speaking countries
• Mass media -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century
• English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Economics and literature -- English-speaking countries
• Money in literature
• Economics in literature
• Literature publishing -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century
• American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

"Kevin McLaughlin argues for a literary-critical approach to the impact of the mass media on literature through a series of detailed interpretations of paper in fiction by Poe, Stevenson, Melville, Dickens, and Hardy. In this fiction, he argues, paper dramatizes the "withdrawal," as Benjamin puts it, of the "here and now" of the traditional work of art into the dispersing or distracting movement of the mass media. Paperwork seeks to challenge traditional concepts of medium and message that continue to inform studies of print culture and the mass media especially in the wake of industrialized production in the early nineteenth century. It breaks new ground in the exploration of the difference between mass culture and literature and will appeal to cultural historians and literary critics alike."--BOOK JACKET

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DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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