Description
Book SynopsisThis book describes new affective and material modes of print media consumption that emerged in the nineteenth century, when ephemeral printed material and objects became part of everyday modern life. It offers a history of our own moment of digital absorption, information addiction, and social media obsession.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Paper to Pixel
1. Temperate Media: Ephemera and Performance in the Making of Mass Culture
2. Tobacco Papers, Holmes’ Pipe, and Information Addiction
3. Ink, Mass Culture, and the Unconscious
4. “Dreaming True”: Playback, Immediacy, and “Du Maurierness"
5. “A Form of Reverie, A Malady of Dreaming: Dorian Gray and Mass Culture”
Conclusion: Unknown Publics
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
