 | Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Capitalism and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century; Literature publishing -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century; Mass media -- English-speaking co; Paperwork challenges traditional approaches to print culture and the mass media in the nineteenth century. Kevin McLaughlin argues for a literary-critical approach to the impact of the mass media on literature through a series of detailed interpretations of fiction by Poe, Stevenson, Melville, Dickens, and Hardy. Kevin McLaughlin is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is cotranslator of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project and author of Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature. |
