Media critique in the age of Gillray : scratches, scraps, and spectres /

Media critique in the age of Gillray : scratches, scraps, and spectres / Joseph Monteyne.

"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 th...

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Main Author: Monteyne, Joseph (Author)
Format: Ebook
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Prints, English > England > 18th century.
Prints > Social aspects > England > History > 18th century.
English wit and humor, Pictorial > England > History > 18th century.
England > Social life and customs > 18th century > Caricatures and cartoons.
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Table of Contents:
  • Dark Media and the Materiality of Nothing
  • Haunted Media
  • Good Copies, Bad Copies
  • Social Detritus, Paper Detritus.
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