Print, chaos, and complexity
Subtitle: Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century media culture
By: Mark E. Wildermuth.
Publisher: University of Delware Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780874130324
Subjects: Johnson, Samuel, -- 1709-1784 -- Philosophy; Johnson, Samuel, -- 1709-1784 -- Political and social views; Pope, Alexander, -- 1688-1744; 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 century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Textual instability, print, and complex dynamics in the Johsonian mediated cultural milieu; title: Pope as a precursor to Johnson : the mediation of chaos and order in An essay on man; title: Complexity and mediated culture in Johnson's moral periodical prose; title: Johnson's politics in the milieu of informatics; title: Samuel Johnson, mediation, representation, and the aesthetics of complex dynamics.