Technologies of Power in the Victorian Period Print Culture, Human Labor, and New Modes of Critique in Charles Dickens's Hard Times, Charlotte Bront's

by John C. Murray

This study examines the ways in which technological changes initiated during the Victorian period have led to the diminution of speech as a mode of critique. Much in the same ways that speech had been used to affirm intersubjectivity, print culture conditioned readers to accept uni-directional exchange of values and interests. It enabled the creation of a community of readers who would be responsive to the expansion of a industry and the emergence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604976683
• ISBN13: 9781604976687
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Cambria Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"