Title: Print Technology in Scotland and America, 1740–1800
Description: In Print Technology in Scotland and America Louis Kirk McAuley investigates the mediation of popular-political culture in Scotland and America, from the transatlantic religious revivals known as the Great Awakening to the U.S. presidential election of 1800. By focusing on Scotland and America {u2013} and, in particular, the tension between unity and fragmentation that characterizes eighteenth-century Scottish and American literature and culture {u2013} Print Technology aims to increase our understanding of how tensions within these corresponding political and cultural arenas altered prints meaning and power as an instrument of empire and nation building. McAuley reveals how seemingly disparate events, including journalism and literary forgery, were instrumental and innovative deployments of print not as a liberation technology (as Habermas{u2019}s analysis of prints structural transformation of the public sphere suggests), but as a mediator of political tensions. --Amazon.com.
Subjects: English literature, history and criticism, Scottish literature, history and criticism, American literature, history and criticism, Politics and literature, Printing, Journalism, political aspects, Journalism, europe, Journalism, united states, Macpherson, james, 1736-1796, English literature, Scottish authors, History and criticism, Scottish literature, American literature, History, Journalism, Criticism and interpretation, Political aspects