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Print, chaos, and complexity : Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century media culture / Mark E. Wildermuth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wildermuth, Mark E., 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Philosophy.
- Johnson, Samuel.
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Political and social views.
- Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Essay on man.
- Pope, Alexander.
- Printing--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Printing.
- Printing--Social aspects.
- Transmission of texts.
- Mimesis in literature.
- Authors and readers--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Authors and readers.
- Books and reading--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Books and reading.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (197 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : University of Delware Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text describes how 18th-century awareness of the interplay between fixity and instability in printed texts demonstrates the role print played in developing Samuel Johnson's awareness of print culture's impact on human beings ethically, politically, and aesthetically.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-193) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-936249-50-2
- OCLC:
- 694147639
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