Transits : literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850
Print version: McAuley, Louis Kirk, 1970- Print technology in Scotland and America, 1740-1800. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, c2013 xv, 327 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits Transits (Bucknell University) ISBN 9781611485431
Includes bibliographical references and index
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.