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1 online resource (vii, 442 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in print culture and the history of the book |
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Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
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Introduction -- Errata lists and the reader as corrector / Ann Blair -- Counterfeit printing as an agent of diffusion and change : the French book-privilege system and its contradictions (1498-1790) / Jean-Dominique Mellot -- On the threshold : architecture, paratext, and early print culture / William H. Sherman -- Moving pictures : Foxe's Martyrs and Little Gidding / Margaret Aston -- Humphrey Moseley and the invention of English literature / David Scott Kastan -- "On the behalf of the printers" : a late Stuart printer-author and her causes / Paula McDowell -- Fixity versus flexibility in "A song on Tom of Danby" and Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel / Harold Love -- Reinventing Gutenberg : woodblock and movable-type printing in Europe and China / Kai-wing Chow -- Scotland : international politics, international press / Arthur Williamson -- Change and the printing press in sixteenth-century Spanish America / Antonio Rodriguez-Buckingham -- The southern printer as agent of change in the American revolution / Calhoun Winton -- The printing press and change in the Arab world / Geoffrey Roper -- Print and the emergence of multiple publics in nineteenth-century Punjab / Vivek Bhandari -- "Ki ngā pito e whā o te ao nei" (to the four corners of this world) : Maori publishing and writing for nineteenth-century Maori-language newspapers / Jane McRae -- "Little jobs" : broadsides and the printing revolution / Peter Stallybrass -- What difference does colonialism make? : Reassessing print and social change in an age of global imperialism / Tony Ballantyne -- The laser printer as an agent of change : fixity and fluxion in the digital age / Barbara A. Brannon -- The cultural consequences of printing and the Internet / James A. Dewar and Peng Hwa Ang -- Seeing the world in print / Robert A. Gross -- The printing revolution : a reappraisal / Roger Chartier -- A conversation with Elizabeth L. Eisenstein / Baron, Lindquist, and Shevlin |
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Inspiring debate since the early days of its publication, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe (1979) has exercised its own force as an agent of change in the world of scholarship. Its path-breaking agenda has played a central role in shaping the study of print culture and "book history" -- fields of inquiry that rank among the most exciting and vital areas of scholarly endeavor in recent years. Joining together leading voices in the field of print scholarship, this collection of twenty essays affirms the catalytic properties of Eisenstein's study as a stimulus to further inquiry across geographic, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries. From early modern marginalia to the use of architectural title pages in Renaissance books, from the press in Spanish colonial America to print in the Islamic world, from the role of the printed word in nation-building to changing histories of reading in the electronic age, this book addresses the legacy of Eisenstein's work in print culture studies today as it suggests future directions for the field. In addition to a conversation with Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, the book includes contributions by Peng Hwa Ang, Margaret Aston, Tony Ballantyne, Vivek Bhandari, Ann Blair, Barbara A. Brannon, Roger Chartier, Kai-wing Chow, James A. Dewar, Robert A. Gross, David Scott Kastan, Harold Love, Paula McDowell, Jane McRae, Jean-Dominique Mellot, Antonio Rodr'guez-Buckingham, Geoffrey Roper, William H. Sherman, Peter Stallybrass, H. Arthur Williamson, and Calhoun Winton |
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OldControl:muse9781613760659 |
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"Publications by Elizabeth leaves Eisenstein": pages 421-425 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. Printing press as an agent of change
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Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. swd |
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Book industries and trade -- History
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Books -- Social aspects -- History
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Books -- History.
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Printing -- Social aspects -- History
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Printing -- History.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
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Book industries and trade
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Books
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Printing
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Printing -- Social aspects
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Buchdruck
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Buch.
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History
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Electronic book
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Baron, Sabrina A. (Sabrina Alcorn), editor.
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Lindquist, Eric N., editor.
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Shevlin, Eleanor F., editor.
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1613760655 |
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9781613760659 |
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