Print Technology in Scotland and America, 1740–1800
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lewisburg, PA
ISBN-13: 9781611485431
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: List of Illustrations; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Chapter One: Noise (and Noise Abatement) in Scotland and America; title: Chapter Two: To “Bring Forward a General Scream”: George Whitefield, Mob Rules, and the Noise of Religious Enthusiasm; title: Chapter Three: The “Torrent’s Roar”: Agricultural Improvement, Colonial Administration, and the Reorganization of Noise in James Macpherson’s The Poems of Ossian; title: Chapter Four: Creating a “Perfect Union of Opinion”: The Polygraph, Thomas Jefferson, and the Presidential Election of 1800; title: Chapter Five: “Periodical Visitations”: Crises of Representation in Charles Brockden Brown’s Arthur Mervyn; title: Bibliography; title: About the Author; title: Index