UID:
edocfu_9958352446602883
Format:
1 online resource (192 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780812202779
Series Statement:
Critical Authors and Issues
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Frequently Cited Texts --
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Introduction: Apparitions of Paper --
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Chapter 1 Distraction in America: Paper, Money, Poe --
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Chapter 2 Off the Map: Stevenson’s Polynesian Fiction --
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Chapter 3 Transatlantic Connections: "Paper Language" in Melville --
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Chapter 4 The Paper State: Collective Breakdown in Dickens’s Bleak House --
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Chapter 5 Pretending to Read: Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge --
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Afterword: The Novel Collective --
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Notes --
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Selected Bibliography --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812202779
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202779
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