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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457998003321

Autore

Wildermuth Mark E. <1956->

Titolo

Print, chaos, and complexity [[electronic resource] ] : Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century media culture / / Mark E. Wildermuth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newark, : University of Delware Press, c2008

ISBN

1-936249-50-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Disciplina

828/.609

Soggetti

Printing - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Printing - Social aspects

Transmission of texts

Mimesis in literature

Authors and readers - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Books and reading - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Electronic books.

Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-193) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Textual instability, print, and complex dynamics in the Johsonian mediated cultural milieu -- Pope as a precursor to Johnson : the mediation of chaos and order in An essay on man -- Complexity and mediated culture in Johnson's moral periodical prose -- Johnson's politics in the milieu of informatics -- Samuel Johnson, mediation, representation, and the aesthetics of complex dynamics.