Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age
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"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,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812238885
ISBN13:9780812238884
Release Date:September 2005
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"
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