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Media critique in the age of Gillray : scratches, scraps, and spectres
- Title
- Media critique in the age of Gillray : scratches, scraps, and spectres / Joseph Monteyne.
- Author
- Monteyne, Joseph
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 301 pages : illustrations (some colour); 24 cm
- Summary
- "In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the Bank of England from its obligations to convert paper notes into coin. Paper quickly became associated with a form of limitless reproduction that threatened to dematerialize solid bodies and replace them with insubstantial shadows. Media Critique in the Age of Gillray centres on printed images and graphic satires which view paper as the foundation for the contemporary world. Through a focus on printed, visual imagery from practitioners such as James Gillray, William Blake, John Thomas Smith, and Henry Fuseli, the book addresses challenges posed by reproductive technologies to traditional concepts of subjective agency. Joseph Monteyne shows that the late eighteenth-century paper age's baseless fabric set the stage for contemporary digital media's weightless production. Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, Media Critique in the Age of Gillray highlights the fact that graphic culture has been overlooked as an important sphere for the production of critical and self-reflective discourses around media transformations and the visual turn in British culture."--
- Subject
- 1700-1799
- Prints, English > England > 18th century
- Prints > Social aspects > History > England > 18th century
- English wit and humor, Pictorial > England > History > 18th century
- English wit and humor, Pictorial
- Manners and customs
- Prints, English
- Prints > Social aspects
- England > Social life and customs > Caricatures and cartoons. > 18th century
- England
- Genre/Form
- Caricatures and cartoons.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Contents
- Dark Media and the Materiality of Nothing -- Haunted Media -- Good Copies, Bad Copies -- Social Detritus, Paper Detritus.
- Call Number
- JQE 22-108
- ISBN
- 1487527748
- 9781487527747
- OCLC
- 1242466023
- Author
- Monteyne, Joseph, author.
- Title
- Media critique in the age of Gillray : scratches, scraps, and spectres / Joseph Monteyne.
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1799
- Other Form:
- Online version: Monteyne, Joseph. Media critique in the age of Gillray. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2022 1487527764 9781487527761 (OCoLC)1267704161
- Research Call Number
- JQE 22-108