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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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (316 p.) :; 28 colour illustrations, 38 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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