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Print technology in Scotland and America, 1740-1800 / by McAuley, Louis Kirk, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Noise (and noise abatement) in Scotland and America -- To "bring forward a general scream" : George Whitefield, mob rules, and the noise of religious enthusiasm -- The "torrent's roar" : agricultural improvement, colonial administration, and the reorganization of noise in James Macpherson's The poems of Ossian -- Creating a "perfect union of opinion" : the polygraph, Thomas Jefferson, and the presidential election of 1800 -- "Periodical visitations" : crises of representation in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn.…”
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