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Paperwork : fiction and mass mediacy in the Paper Age /

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, Dicke...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McLaughlin, Kevin, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2005.
Colección:Critical authors & issues.
Temas:
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frequently cited texts.
  • Introduction: Apparitions of paper.
  • Distraction in America: paper, money, Poe.
  • Off the map: Stevenson's Polynesian fiction.
  • Transatlantic connections: "Paper language" in Melville.
  • The paper state: collective breakdown in Dickens's Bleak house.
  • Pretending to read: Hardy's The mayor of Casterbridge.
  • Afterword: The novel collective.