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Author:

Wildermuth, Mark E., 1956-

Title:

Print, chaos, and complexity : Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century media culture / Mark E. Wildermuth.

Publisher:

University of Delware Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

197 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Johnson, Samuel,--1709-1784--Philosophy.
Johnson, Samuel,--1709-1784--Political and social views.
Printing--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Printing--Social aspects.
Transmission of texts
Mimesis in literature
Authors and readers--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Books and reading--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century
Pope, Alexander,--1688-1744--Essay on man.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-193) and index.

Contents:

Textual instability, print, and complex dynamics in the Johsonian mediated cultural milieu -- Pope as a precursor to Johnson : the mediation of chaos and order in An essay on man -- Complexity and mediated culture in Johnson's moral periodical prose -- Johnson's politics in the milieu of informatics -- Samuel Johnson, mediation, representation, and the aesthetics of complex dynamics.

ISBN:

0874130328 (alk. paper)
9780874130324 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)187300200

LCCN:

2007051719

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)