Print, chaos, and complexity : Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century media culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wildermuth, Mark E., 1956-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Newark : University of Delware Press, [2008]
Subjects:	Johnson, Samuel, > 1709-1784 > Philosophy. Johnson, Samuel, > 1709-1784 > Political and social views. 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. Pope, Alexander, > 1688-1744. > Essay on man.

Table of Contents:

Textual instability, print, and complex dynamics in the Johsonian mediated cultural milieu
Pope as a precursor to Johnson : the mediation of chaos and order in An essay on man
Complexity and mediated culture in Johnson's moral periodical prose
Johnson's politics in the milieu of informatics
Samuel Johnson, mediation, representation, and the aesthetics of complex dynamics.