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Divine art, infernal machine : the reception of printing in the West from first impressions to the sense of an ending /
'Divine Art, Infernal Machine' presents a history of the printing press & of the ambivalent attitudes of the public toward printers & printing since the days of Gutenberg & his business partner Johann Fust, a gentleman often tellingly confused with the notorious Doctor Faustus.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Material texts.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- First impressions
- After Luther : civil war in Christendom
- After Erasmus : propelling the knowledge industry
- Eighteenth-century attitudes
- The zenith of print culture (nineteenth century)
- The newspaper press : the end of books?
- Toward the sense of an ending (fin de siecle to the present).