Print technology in Scotland and America, 1740-1800 / / Louis Kirk McAuley.
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| Superior document: | Transits : literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | [Lewisburg, Pennsylvania] : : Bucknell University Press,, [2013] 2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Transits (Bucknell University)
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 pages) :; illustrations, maps, portraits. |
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Table of Contents:
- Noise (and noise abatement) in Scotland and America
- To "bring forward a general scream" : George Whitefield, mob rules, and the noise of religious enthusiasm
- The "torrent's roar" : agricultural improvement, colonial administration, and the reorganization of noise in James Macpherson's The poems of Ossian
- Creating a "perfect union of opinion" : the polygraph, Thomas Jefferson, and the presidential election of 1800
- "Periodical visitations" : crises of representation in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn.