The mediated mind : affect, ephemera, and consumerism in the nineteenth century /
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 medi...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv19x54b |
Table of 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.