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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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Monteyne, Joseph (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2022.
Temas:
1700-1799
Prints, English > England > 18th century.
Prints > Social aspects > England > History > 18th century.
English wit and humor, Pictorial > England > History > 18th century.
Estampe anglaise > Angleterre > 18e siècle.
Estampe > Aspect social > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Humour par l'image anglais > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
English wit and humor, Pictorial.
Manners and customs.
Prints, English.
Prints > Social aspects.
England > Social life and customs > 18th century > Caricatures and cartoons.
Angleterre > Mœurs et coutumes > 18e siècle > Caricatures et dessins humoristiques.
England.
Caricatures and cartoons.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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 threatened to dematerialize solid bodies and replace them with insubstantial shadows. Media Critique in the Age of Gillray centres on printed images and graphic satires which view paper as the foundation for the contemporary world. Through a focus on printed, visual imagery from practitioners such as James Gillray, William Blake, John Thomas Smith, and Henry Fuseli, the book addresses challenges posed by reproductive technologies to traditional concepts of subjective agency. Joseph Monteyne shows that the late eighteenth-century paper age's baseless fabric set the stage for contemporary digital media's weightless production. Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, Media Critique in the Age of Gillray highlights the fact that graphic culture has been overlooked as an important sphere for the production of critical and self-reflective discourses around media transformations and the visual turn in British culture."--
Descripción Física:1 online resource.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781487527761
1487527764
1487527756
9781487527754

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