Laura Mandell

eBook, ePUB

Breaking the Book (eBook, ePUB)

Print Humanities in the Digital Age

Beschreibung

Breaking the Book is a manifesto on the cognitive consequences and emotional effects of human interactions with physical books that reveals why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital' humanities. * Explores the reasons why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital humanities' * Reveals facets of book history, offering it as an example of how different media shape our modes of thinking and feeling * Gathers together the most important book history and literary criticism concerning the hundred years leading up to the early 19th-century emergence of mass print culture * Predicts effects of the digital revolution on disciplinarity, expertise, and the institutional restructuring of the humanities

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 6.11MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech: false

Autor

Laura Mandell is Professor of English Literature and Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A & M University. Her publications include Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1999) and a Longman Cultural Edition of The Castle of Otranto and Man of Feeling. Dr. Mandell is also Director of 18thConnect.org and General Editor of the Poetess Archive.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118274446
• Artikelnr.: 42893695