{"product_id":"enlightenment-links-theories-of-mind-and-media-in-eighteenth-century-britain-hardback-9781503637979","title":"Enlightenment Links; Theories of Mind and Media in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardback) 9781503637979","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEnlightenment Links\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTheories of Mind and Media in Eighteenth-Century Britain\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCollin Jennings (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503637979\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 May 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e282 pages, 11 tables, 12 figures, 11 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This welcome, new scholarly work collects computational studies of reference works, poetry, novels, and nonfiction. The writing is ambitious and exciting, and I came away convinced that the link is a literary device—in fact, one with an eighteenth-century genealogy.\"—Brad Pasanek, University of Virginia \"This study breaks new ground with respect to what we know about the organization of knowledge in the British Enlightenment. Jennings provocatively inverts his historical texts in order to read them as engaging with our current technologies of AI.\"—Peter de Bolla, University of Cambridge \"\u003ci\u003eEnlightenment Links\u003c\/i\u003e charts a course 'linking' the 21st and 18th centuries that provides sufficiently deep matter for sustained rumination. Recommended.\"—A. W. Lee, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eEnlightenment Links\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive book. Like its source material, it moves between specific concrete instances and larger, more abstract concepts. In doing so, Collins shows how Enlightenment links served not only to connect texts, but to connect those texts to the world.\"—Jason Gulya, \u003ci\u003eH-Albion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this ambitious work, Collin Jennings applies computational methods to eighteenth-century fiction, history, and poetry to reveal the nonlinear courses of reading they produce. Hallmark genres of the British Enlightenment, such as the novel and the stadial history, are typically viewed as narratives of linear progress, emerging from Britain's imperial growth and scientific advancement. Jennings foregrounds Enlightenment links: the paratextual devices, including cross-references, footnotes, and epigraphs, that make words work differently by pointing the reader to places inside and outside the text. Writers and printers combined text and paratext to produce nonlinear paths of reading and polysemous forms of reference that resist simple, causal structures of experience or theories of mind. Alexander Pope, Adam Smith, Ann Radcliffe, and other writers developed genres that operate diagrammatically, with different points of entry and varied relationships between the language and format of books.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevealing the eighteenth-century genealogy of the digital hyperlinks of today, \u003ci\u003eEnlightenment Links\u003c\/i\u003e argues that emergent print genres combined language and links to bring forward the associative, circular, and multi-sequential ways in which literature makes language work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction: What's in a Link?\u003cbr\u003e  1. Cross-References: Shapes of Knowledge in Chambers's \u003ci\u003eCyclopaedia\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  2. Footnotes: The Poetics of Progress\u003cbr\u003e  3. Indexes: Techniques of Abstraction in the Scottish Philosophical History\u003cbr\u003e  4. Epigraphs: Paratextual Spaces in Novels of the 1790s\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: The Future of Links\u003cbr\u003e  Appendix: Data and Methods\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610708373784,"sku":"9781503637979","price":44.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/enlightenment-links-theories-of-mind-and-media-in-eighteenth-century-britain-hardback-9781503637979","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}