Knowing Books: The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain 9780812243727

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Автор: Lupton Christina
Название: Knowing Books: The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9780812243727
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Литературоведение: с 1500 до 1800 г.

ISBN-10: 0812243722
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 184
Вес: 0.50 кг.
Дата издания: 16.11.2011
Серия: Material texts
Язык: English
Размер: 232 x 158 x 24
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Подзаголовок: The consciousness of mediation in eighteenth-century britain
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Поставляется из: Англии
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The eighteenth century has long been associated with realism and objective description, modes of representation that deemphasize writing. But in the middle decades of the century, Christina Lupton observes, authors described with surprising candor the material and economic facets of their own texts production. In Knowing Books Lupton examines a variety of eighteenth-century sources, including sermons, graffiti, philosophical texts, and magazines, which illustrate the range and character of mid-century experiments with words announcing their status as physical objects. Books that know their own presence on the page and in the readers hand become, in Luptons account, tantalizing objects whose entertainment value competes with that of realist narrative.
Knowing Books introduces these mid-eighteenth-century works as part of a long history of self-conscious texts being greeted as fashionable objects. Poststructuralist and Marxist approaches to literature celebrate the consciousness of writing and economic production as belonging to revolutionary understandings of the world, but authors of the period under Luptons gaze expose the facts of mediation without being revolutionary. On the contrary, their explication of economic and material processes shores up their claim to material autonomy and economic success. Lupton uses media theory and close reading to suggest the desire of eighteenth-century readers to attribute sentience to technologies and objects that entertain them.
Rather than a historical study of print technology, Knowing Books offers a humanist interpretation of the will to cede agency to media. This horizon of theoretical engagement makes Knowing Books at once an account of the least studied decades of the eighteenth century and a work of relevance for those interested in new attitudes toward media in the twenty-first.

Knowing Books: The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Lupton Christina