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Author:

McAuley, Louis Kirk, 1970-

Title:

Print technology in Scotland and America, 1740-1800 / Louis Kirk McAuley.

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press ;

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xv, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Scottish literature--18th century--History and criticism.
American literature--18th cntury--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--History--18th century.
Printing--History--Scotland--History--18th century.
Printing--History--United States--History--18th century.
Journalism--History--Scotland--History--18th century.
Journalism--History--United States--History--18th century.
Macpherson, James,--1736-1796--Criticism and interpretation.
Brown, Charles Brockden,--1771-1810--Criticism and interpretation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-315) and index.

Contents:

Noise (and noise abatement) in Scotland and America -- To "bring forward a general scream" : George Whitefield, mob rules, and the noise of religious enthusiasm -- The "torrent's roar" : agricultural improvement, colonial administration, and the reorganization of noise in James Macpherson's The poems of Ossian -- Creating a "perfect union of opinion" : the polygraph, Thomas Jefferson, and the presidential election of 1800 -- "Periodical visitations" : crises of representation in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn.

Series:

Transits: literature, thought & culture

ISBN:

1611485436 (cloth)
9781611485431 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)855957412

LCCN:

2013030374

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)