Paperwork : Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age.

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9780812202779

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages)

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Critical Authors and Issues

Contents:

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Frequently Cited Texts -- Introduction: Apparitions of Paper -- Chapter 1. Distraction in America: Paper, Money, Poe -- Chapter 2. Off the Map: Stevenson's Polynesian Fiction -- Chapter 3. Transatlantic Connections: "Paper Language" in Melville -- Chapter 4. The Paper State: Collective Breakdown in Dickens's Bleak House -- Chapter 5. Pretending to Read: Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge -- Afterword: The Novel Collective -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Abstract:

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, Dickens, and Hardy.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

Capitalism and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century.

Economics and literature -- English-speaking countries.

English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

Literature publishing -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century.

Mass media -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century.

Paper money -- English-speaking countries.

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