Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue. Originary Prints -- Chapter 1. The Artificial Tongue: Beginnings -- Chapter 2. Hand of Brass: From Manuscript to Print -- Chapter 3. Teleprinting: Geoffroy Tory and the Gallic Hercules -- Chapter 4. Phonography: Accents, Orthography, Typography -- Chapter 5. Grammatization: Pedagogies of the Mother Tongue -- Chapter 6. Prosthetic Sovereignty: François I and the Ear of the People -- Chapter 7. Survival: Du Bellay and the Life of Language -- Epilogue -- Appendix. Technical Treatises on the French Language, 1500-1600 -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
"The Prosthetic Tongue charts the technological reinvention of French across a range of domains-from typography, orthography, and grammar, to politics, pedagogy, and poetics-over the course of two transformative decades in the sixteenth century"-- Provided by publisher
