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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Material Texts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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