Media Critique in the Age of Gillray : Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres /

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In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the Bank of England from its obligations to convert paper notes into coin. Paper quickly became associated with a form of limitless reproduction that threaten...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Monteyne, Joseph (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
Temas:
English wit and humor, Pictorial > England > History > 18th century.
Prints > Social aspects > England > History > 18th century.
Prints, English > England > 18th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
Henry Fuseli.
James Gillray.
John Thomas Smith.
William Blake.
ballad sellers.
culture.
dark media.
defaced pictures.
eighteenth-century London.
graphic satire.
mass media.
paper.
phantasmagoria.
print culture.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Making and Unmaking the Paper World
  • 1 Dark Media and the Materiality of Nothing
  • 2 Haunted Media
  • 3 Good Copies, Bad Copies
  • 4 Social Detritus, Paper Detritus
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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