| Description |
1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: From Paper to Pixel; 1. Temperate Media: Ephemera and Performance in the Making of Mass Culture; 2. Tobacco Papers, Holmes's Pipe, Cigarette Cards, and Information Addiction; 3. Ink, Mass Culture, and the Unconscious; 4. "Dreaming True": Playback, Immediacy, and "Du Maurierness"; 5. "A Form of Reverie, a Malady of Dreaming": Dorian Gray, Personality, and Mass Culture; Conclusion: Unknown Publics; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
This book describes new affective and material modes of print media consumption that emerged in the nineteenth century, when ephemeral printed material and objects became part of everyday modern life. It offers a history of our own moment of digital absorption, information addiction, and social media obsession |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-259) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 05, 2018) |
| Subject |
Mass media and literature.
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Mass media and culture.
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Mass media -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century
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Printed ephemera -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Mass media and culture
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Mass media and literature
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Mass media -- Social aspects
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Printed ephemera -- Social aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017054125 |
| ISBN |
9780823279845 |
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0823279847 |
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9780823279852 |
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0823279855 |
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0823279820 |
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9780823279821 |
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