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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Zieger, Susan Marjorie (Auteur)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press 2018.
Édition:First edition.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv19x54b
Table des matières:
  • 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.