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Author Zieger, Susan Marjorie, author.

Title The mediated mind : affect, ephemera, and consumerism in the nineteenth century / Susan Zieger.

Publication Info. New York : Fordham University Press, 2018.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (224 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents Intro; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: From Paper to Pixel; 1. Temperate Media: Ephemera and Performance in the Making of Mass Culture; 2. Tobacco Papers, Holmes's Pipe, Cigarette Cards, and Information Addiction; 3. Ink, Mass Culture, and the Unconscious; 4. "Dreaming True": Playback, Immediacy, and "Du Maurierness"; 5. "A Form of Reverie, a Malady of Dreaming": Dorian Gray, Personality, and Mass Culture; Conclusion: Unknown Publics; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.
Summary This book describes new affective and material modes of print media consumption that emerged in the nineteenth century, when ephemeral printed material and objects became part of everyday modern life. It offers a history of our own moment of digital absorption, information addiction, and social media obsession.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-259) and index.
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Subject Mass media and literature.
Mass media and literature.
Mass media and culture.
Mass media and culture.
Mass media -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century.
Mass media -- Social aspects.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Printed ephemera -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century.
Printed ephemera -- Social aspects.
Printed ephemera.
History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Zieger, Susan. Mediated Mind : Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century. New York : Fordham University Press, ©2018 9780823279821
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