Media Critique in the Age of Gillray : : Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres / / Joseph Monteyne.
In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the Bank of England from its obligations to convert paper notes into coin. Paper quickly became associated with a form of limitless reproduction that threaten...
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Monteyne, Joseph, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Media Critique in the Age of Gillray : Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres / Joseph Monteyne. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2021] ©2022 1 online resource (316 p.) : 28 colour illustrations, 38 b&w illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Making and Unmaking the Paper World -- 1 Dark Media and the Materiality of Nothing -- 2 Haunted Media -- 3 Good Copies, Bad Copies -- 4 Social Detritus, Paper Detritus -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the Bank of England from its obligations to convert paper notes into coin. Paper quickly became associated with a form of limitless reproduction that threatened to dematerialize solid bodies and replace them with insubstantial shadows. Media Critique in the Age of Gillray centres on printed images and graphic satires which view paper as the foundation for the contemporary world. Through a focus on printed, visual imagery from practitioners such as James Gillray, William Blake, John Thomas Smith, and Henry Fuseli, the book addresses challenges posed by reproductive technologies to traditional concepts of subjective agency. Joseph Monteyne shows that the late eighteenth-century paper age’s baseless fabric set the stage for contemporary digital media’s weightless production. Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, Media Critique in the Age of Gillray highlights the fact that graphic culture has been overlooked as an important sphere for the production of critical and self-reflective discourses around media transformations and the visual turn in British culture. 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 29. Mai 2023) English wit and humor, Pictorial England History 18th century. Prints Social aspects England History 18th century. Prints, English England 18th century. LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. bisacsh Henry Fuseli. James Gillray. John Thomas Smith. William Blake. ballad sellers. culture. dark media. defaced pictures. eighteenth-century London. graphic satire. mass media. paper. phantasmagoria. print culture. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110767155 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487527754 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487527754 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487527754/original |
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