Paperwork"The Paper Age" is the phrase coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1837 to describe the monetary and literary inflation of the French Revolutionan age of mass produced "Bank paper" and "Book paper." Carlyle's phrase is suggestive because it points to the particular substancepaperthat provides the basis for reflection on the mass media in much popular fiction appearing around the time of his historical essay. Rather than becoming a metaphor, however, paper in