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This 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.

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Introduction: 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

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 5 June 2018
      ISBN-13 9780823279838
      978-0823279838
      ISBN-10 0823279839
      Also in:
      Media studies Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This 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 Contents

      Introduction: 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

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