Print, chaos, and complexity : Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century media culture / / Mark E. Wildermuth
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| Autore: |
Wildermuth Mark E. <1956->
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| Titolo: |
Print, chaos, and complexity : Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century media culture / / Mark E. Wildermuth
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| Pubblicazione: | Newark, : University of Delware Press, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (197 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 828/.609 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Print, chaos, and complexity |
| ISBN: | 1-936249-50-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910953390903321 |
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