Divine art, infernal machine : the reception of printing in the West from first impressions to the sense of an ending / Elizabeth L. Eisenstein.
2011
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Title
Divine art, infernal machine : the reception of printing in the West from first impressions to the sense of an ending / Elizabeth L. Eisenstein.
Created/published
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011.
Description
xiii, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Associated name
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L., author.
Series
Material texts.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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 siècle to the present).
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 siècle to the present).
Place of creation/publication
United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Item Details
Call number
Z124 .E368 2011
Folger accession
266085