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.
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.
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
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
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