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Book SynopsisMedia Critique in the Age of Gillray reflects on print and paper culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, crafting a new approach to British visual culture.
Trade Review"Monteyne’s book is scholarly, wide ranging, insightful, theoretically informed, and dense; it demands to be read patiently. The book is also well produced and lavishly illustrated with color images throughout." -- J. T. Lynch, Rutgers University–Newark *
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“Media Critique in the Age of Gillray provides a semiotic journey through the baseless fabric of late-eighteenth-century print culture and is worth reading, and then reading again since it provides abundant opportunities for making connections.” -- Amanda Lahikainen, Ogunquit Museum of American Art *
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Making and Unmaking the Paper World 1. Dark Media and the Materiality of Nothing Dark Media and Graphic Materiality Smoked Images and Night Pieces: Touching Nothing Form and Formlessness in Blake’s Embedded Media 2. Haunted Media Conjuring Dead Painters The Baseless Fabric of Print Dematerializing Media 3. Good Copies, Bad Copies Counterfeit Masks Repetition with Difference Pairs of Portraits 4. Social Detritus, Paper Detritus Blind Beggars and Printed Images Cobbling, Patching, Translating The Gatherer of Scraps
