Elizabeth L Eisenstein

Divine Art, Infernal Machine

The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9780812222166
• ISBN-10: 0812222164
• Artikelnr.: 35563193

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Inhaltsangabe

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 Sie'cle to the Present)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments