05118nam 2200913 a 450 991045762970332120200520144314.01-283-21187-497866132118730-8122-0277-510.9783/9780812202779(CKB)2550000000051199(OCoLC)759158197(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491926(SSID)ssj0000544496(PQKBManifestationID)11332810(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000544496(PQKBWorkID)10535869(PQKB)11509662(MiAaPQ)EBC3441469(MdBmJHUP)muse8352(DE-B1597)449135(OCoLC)1013954229(OCoLC)1037980209(OCoLC)1041973994(OCoLC)1046621197(OCoLC)1047011032(OCoLC)1049633059(OCoLC)1054868914(OCoLC)979778888(DE-B1597)9780812202779(Au-PeEL)EBL3441469(CaPaEBR)ebr10491926(CaONFJC)MIL321187(EXLCZ)99255000000005119920050217d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrPaperwork[electronic resource] fiction and mass mediacy in the Paper Age /Kevin McLaughlinPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20051 online resource (193 p.) Critical authors & issuesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-3888-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-176) and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Frequently Cited Texts -- Introduction: Apparitions of Paper -- Chapter 1 Distraction in America: Paper, Money, Poe -- Chapter 2 Off the Map: Stevenson's Polynesian Fiction -- Chapter 3 Transatlantic Connections: "Paper Language" in Melville -- Chapter 4 The Paper State: Collective Breakdown in Dickens's Bleak House -- Chapter 5 Pretending to Read: Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge -- Afterword: The Novel Collective -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments"The Paper Age" is the phrase coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1837 to describe the monetary and literary inflation of the French Revolution-an age of mass-produced "Bank-paper" and "Book-paper." Carlyle's phrase is suggestive because it points to the particular substance-paper-that provides the basis for reflection on the mass media in much popular fiction appearing around the time of his historical essay. Rather than becoming a metaphor, however, paper in some of this fiction seems to display the more complex and elusive character of what Walter Benjamin evocatively calls "the decline of the aura." The critical perspective elaborated by Benjamin serves as the point of departure for the readings of paper proposed in Paperwork. Kevin McLaughlin argues for a literary-critical approach to the impact of the mass media on literature through a series of detailed interpretations of paper in fiction by Poe, Stevenson, Melville, Dickens, and Hardy. In this fiction, he argues, paper dramatizes the "withdrawal," as Benjamin puts it, of the "here and now" of the traditional work of art into the dispersing or distracting movement of the mass media. Paperwork seeks to challenge traditional concepts of medium and message that continue to inform studies of print culture and the mass media especially in the wake of industrialized production in the early nineteenth century. It breaks new ground in the exploration of the difference between mass culture and literature and will appeal to cultural historians and literary critics alike.Critical authors & issues.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismCapitalism and literatureEnglish-speaking countriesHistory19th centuryLiterature publishingEnglish-speaking countriesHistory19th centuryMass mediaEnglish-speaking countriesHistory19th centuryAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismEconomics and literatureEnglish-speaking countriesPaper moneyEnglish-speaking countriesEconomics in literatureMoney in literatureElectronic books.English fictionHistory and criticism.Capitalism and literatureHistoryLiterature publishingHistoryMass mediaHistoryAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Economics and literaturePaper moneyEconomics in literature.Money in literature.823/.8093553McLaughlin Kevin1959-1031457MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457629703321Paperwork2448856UNINA02520nam0 2200373 450000003620720240109140625.0978-88-921-3843-820240109d2021----km-y0itay50------baitaITy-------001yysdoug----uuuuuBanca, finanza, monetarisorsa elettronicail governo dell'economia nel prisma della comparazionea cura di Giuseppe Franco Ferrariatti del Convegno per il ventennale dell'Associazione di diritto pubblico comparato ed europeoMilano, Dipartimento di studi giuridici dell'Università Bocconi, 28-29 novembre 2019TorinoG. Giappichelli Editore2021199 p.1 testo elettronicoDiritto pubblico comparato ed europeo. Convegni21Dati testuali (1 file)Modalità di accesso: World Wide WebIndice del libro free access:http://digital.casalini.it/9788892195110Il volume raccoglie gli atti del Convegno che si è svolto presso l'Università commerciale L. Bocconi, nei giorni 28 e 29 novembre 2019, per celebrare il ventennale della Rivista Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo. I contributi che lo compongono si interrogano su una tematica che è di evidente attualità e presenta una molteplicità di aspetti. Banca, finanza e moneta sono infatti al crocevia di numerose questioni di primo rilievo negli studi di diritto pubblico comparato. A sua volta, questo rilievo appare tanto più evidente laddove tali studi siano compiuti - come in questo caso - in un'area geografica che, anch'essa da due decenni, sta sperimentando un processo di integrazione monetaria, oltre che economica, senza pari nella storia degli ordinamenti giuridico-politici.2001Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo. Convegni21Banca, finanza, moneta4150294EconomiaDiritto Pubblico Comparato343.0722Diritto. Regolamentazione Dell'attivita EconomicaFerrari,Giuseppe Franco<1950- >340Associazione di diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo281505ITUNIPARTHENOPE20240109RICAUNIMARChttp://digital.casalini.it/9788892195110Accesso limitato alla rete di Ateneo Università di Napoli "Parthenope"Data ultima consultazione: 2024-01-09000036207E-BOOK49170NAVA12024Banca, finanza, moneta4150294UNIPARTHENOPE