Print, chaos, and complexity [electronic resource] : Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century media culture / Mark E. Wildermuth.
Material type: TextPublication details: Newark : University of Delware Press, c2008Description: 197 pSubject(s): Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Philosophy | Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Political and social views | Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Essay on man | Printing -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Printing -- Social aspects | Transmission of texts | Mimesis in literature | Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 828/.609 LOC classification: PR3537.P5 | W55 2008Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references (p. 186-193) and index.
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.
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