Knowing Books : : The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain / / Christina Lupton.
The eighteenth century has long been associated with realism and objective description, modes of representation that deemphasize writing. But in the middle decades of the century, Christina Lupton observes, authors described with surprising candor the material and economic facets of their own texts&...
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Lupton, Christina, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Knowing Books : The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain / Christina Lupton. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011] ©2012 1 online resource (200 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Material Texts Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction. Giving Power to the Medium -- Chapter 1. Powerlessness as Entertainment -- Chapter 2. What It-Narratives Know About Their Authors -- Chapter 3. The Theory of Paper -- Chapter 4. Sermons Written on the Screen of Print -- Chapter 5. Gray and Mackenzie Printing on the Wall -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The eighteenth century has long been associated with realism and objective description, modes of representation that deemphasize writing. But in the middle decades of the century, Christina Lupton observes, authors described with surprising candor the material and economic facets of their own texts' production. In Knowing Books Lupton examines a variety of eighteenth-century sources, including sermons, graffiti, philosophical texts, and magazines, which illustrate the range and character of mid-century experiments with words announcing their status as physical objects. Books that "know" their own presence on the page and in the reader's hand become, in Lupton's account, tantalizing objects whose entertainment value competes with that of realist narrative.Knowing Books introduces these mid-eighteenth-century works as part of a long history of self-conscious texts being greeted as fashionable objects. Poststructuralist and Marxist approaches to literature celebrate the consciousness of writing and economic production as belonging to revolutionary understandings of the world, but authors of the period under Lupton's gaze expose the facts of mediation without being revolutionary. On the contrary, their explication of economic and material processes shores up their claim to material autonomy and economic success. Lupton uses media theory and close reading to suggest the desire of eighteenth-century readers to attribute sentience to technologies and objects that entertain them.Rather than a historical study of print technology, Knowing Books offers a humanist interpretation of the will to cede agency to media. This horizon of theoretical engagement makes Knowing Books at once an account of the least studied decades of the eighteenth century and a work of relevance for those interested in new attitudes toward media in the twenty-first. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) Books and reading Great Britain History 18th century. English literature 18th century History and criticism Theory, etc. Literature publishing Great Britain History 18th century. Mediation in literature. Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature. Cultural Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. bisacsh Literature. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook-Package Literature 9783110413540 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812243727 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205213 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812205213 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812205213/original |
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