Paperwork : : Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age / / Kevin McLaughlin.
"The Paper Age" is the phrase coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1837 to describe the monetary and literary inflation of the French Revolution-an age of mass-produced "Bank-paper" and "Book-paper." Carlyle's phrase is suggestive because it points to the particular substan...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Authors and Issues
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 8 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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