Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 368 p)
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ill
ISBN:
1283897458
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9781283897457
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9780812204674
Series Statement:
Material texts
Content:
The author of the hugely influential The Printing Press as an Agent of Change offers a magisterial and highly readable account of five centuries of ambivalent attitudes toward printing and printers. Once again, she makes a compelling case for the ways in which technological developments and cultural shifts are intimately related.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Chapter 1. First Impressions -- Prologue: Some Foundation Myths -- Initial Reactions: Pros and Cons -- Chapter 2. After Luther: Civil War in Christendom -- Printing as a Protestant Weapon -- Pamphlet Warfare: ''The Media Explosion'' of the 1640s -- Chapter 3. After Erasmus: Propelling the Knowledge Industry -- Celebrating Technology/Advancement of Learning -- Overload: Lost in the Crowd -- Chapter 4. Eighteenth-Century Attitudes -- Prelude and Preview -- Literary Responses: Mystic Art/Mercenary Trade -- Politics in a New Key: The Atlantic Revolutions -- Chapter 5. The Zenith of Print Culture (Nineteenth Century) -- The Revolutionary Aftermath -- Tories and Radicals in Great Britain -- Steam Presses, Railway Fiction -- Chapter 6. The Newspaper Press: The End of Books? -- Chapter 7. Toward the Sense of an Ending (Fin de Siècle to the Present) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1. First Impressions""; ""Prologue: Some Foundation Myths""; ""Initial Reactions: Pros and Cons""; ""Chapter 2. After Luther: Civil War in Christendom""; ""Printing as a Protestant Weapon""; ""Pamphlet Warfare: ''The Media Explosion'' of the 1640s""; ""Chapter 3. After Erasmus: Propelling the Knowledge Industry""; ""Celebrating Technology/Advancement of Learning""; ""Overload: Lost in the Crowd""; ""Chapter 4. Eighteenth-Century Attitudes""; ""Prelude and Preview""; ""Literary Responses: Mystic Art/Mercenary Trade""
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""Politics in a New Key: The Atlantic Revolutions""""Chapter 5. The Zenith of Print Culture (Nineteenth Century)""; ""The Revolutionary Aftermath""; ""Tories and Radicals in Great Britain""; ""Steam Presses, Railway Fiction""; ""Chapter 6. The Newspaper Press: The End of Books?""; ""Chapter 7. Toward the Sense of an Ending (Fin de Siècle to the Present)""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Acknowledgments""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1283889668
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812222166
Additional Edition:
Print version Divine Art, Infernal Machine : The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending
Language:
English
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