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Agent of change : print culture studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein /

Inspiring debate since the early days of its publication, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe (1979) has exercised its own force as an agent of change in the world of scholarship. Its path-breakin...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baron, Sabrina A. (Sabrina Alcorn) (Editor ), Lindquist, Eric N. (Editor ), Shevlin, Eleanor F. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : Washington, D.C. : University of Massachusetts Press ; in association with the Center for the Book, Library of Congress, ©2007.
Colección:Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Errata lists and the reader as corrector / Ann Blair
  • Counterfeit printing as an agent of diffusion and change : the French book-privilege system and its contradictions (1498-1790) / Jean-Dominique Mellot
  • On the threshold : architecture, paratext, and early print culture / William H. Sherman
  • Moving pictures : Foxe's Martyrs and Little Gidding / Margaret Aston
  • Humphrey Moseley and the invention of English literature / David Scott Kastan
  • "On the behalf of the printers" : a late Stuart printer-author and her causes / Paula McDowell
  • Fixity versus flexibility in "A song on Tom of Danby" and Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel / Harold Love
  • Reinventing Gutenberg : woodblock and movable-type printing in Europe and China / Kai-wing Chow
  • Scotland : international politics, international press / Arthur Williamson
  • Change and the printing press in sixteenth-century Spanish America / Antonio Rodriguez-Buckingham
  • The southern printer as agent of change in the American revolution / Calhoun Winton
  • The printing press and change in the Arab world / Geoffrey Roper
  • Print and the emergence of multiple publics in nineteenth-century Punjab / Vivek Bhandari
  • "Ki ngā pito e whā o te ao nei" (to the four corners of this world) : Maori publishing and writing for nineteenth-century Maori-language newspapers / Jane McRae
  • "Little jobs" : broadsides and the printing revolution / Peter Stallybrass
  • What difference does colonialism make? : Reassessing print and social change in an age of global imperialism / Tony Ballantyne
  • The laser printer as an agent of change : fixity and fluxion in the digital age / Barbara A. Brannon
  • The cultural consequences of printing and the Internet / James A. Dewar and Peng Hwa Ang
  • Seeing the world in print / Robert A. Gross
  • The printing revolution : a reappraisal / Roger Chartier
  • A conversation with Elizabeth L. Eisenstein / Baron, Lindquist, and Shevlin.