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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953390903321

Autore

Wildermuth Mark E. <1956->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newark, : University of Delware Press, c2008

ISBN

1-936249-50-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This text describes how 18th-century awareness of the interplay between fixity and instability in printed texts demonstrates the role print played in developing Samuel Johnson's awareness of print culture's impact on human beings ethically, politically, and aesthetically.