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Print technology in Scotland and America, 1740-1800 / Louis Kirk McAuley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Transits : literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850Publisher: Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland :Description: xv, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781611485431 (cloth)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR 8547 .M35 2013
Contents:
Noise (and noise abatement) in Scotland and America -- To "bring forward a general scream" : George Whitefield, mob rules, and the noise of religious enthusiasm -- The "torrent's roar" : agricultural improvement, colonial administration, and the reorganization of noise in James Macpherson's The poems of Ossian -- Creating a "perfect union of opinion" : the polygraph, Thomas Jefferson, and the presidential election of 1800 -- "Periodical visitations" : crises of representation in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-315) and index.

Noise (and noise abatement) in Scotland and America -- To "bring forward a general scream" : George Whitefield, mob rules, and the noise of religious enthusiasm -- The "torrent's roar" : agricultural improvement, colonial administration, and the reorganization of noise in James Macpherson's The poems of Ossian -- Creating a "perfect union of opinion" : the polygraph, Thomas Jefferson, and the presidential election of 1800 -- "Periodical visitations" : crises of representation in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn.


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