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A History of the Book in America : Volume 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World /
The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between the book trade in the Old World and the New, evi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores Corporativos: | , |
| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2016
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| Colección: | History of the book in America ;
v. 1. Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between the book trade in the Old World and the New, evidenced in modes of intellectual and cultural exchange and the dominance of imported, chiefly English books; the gradual emergence of a competitive book trade in which newspapers were the largest form of production; and the institution of a "culture of the Word," organized around an essentially theological understanding of print, authorship, and reading, complemented by other frameworks of meaning that included the culture of republicanism. The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World also traces the histories of literary and learned culture, censorship and "freedom of the press," and literacy and orality. |
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| Notas: | Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 2000. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (664 pages): illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 524-617) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469605463 |
| Acceso: | Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |