Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2011

Divine Art, Infernal Machine

The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

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https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204674

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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.

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Elizabeth L. Eisenstein is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Michigan. In addition to The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, her books include its abridgment, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, and Grub Street Abroad: Aspects of the French Cosmopolitan Press from the Age of Louis XIV to the French Revolution.

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"Eisenstein's research is impressive, reaching far and wide across languages and centuries. Her knowledge of the history of publication engages the wealth of recent scholarship and extends as far back as Roman copyists. . . . Her breadth enables her to identify topoi and their mutations; to observe long-term trends, diminishing ripples, and delayed reactions; and to distinguish what is new or newly dressed in authors' concerns and readers' complaints."—Journal of Scholarly Publishing

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Chapter 1. First Impressions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. After Luther: Civil War in Christendom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Chapter 3. After Erasmus: Propelling the Knowledge Industry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
Chapter 4. Eighteenth-Century Attitudes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
Chapter 5. The Zenith of Print Culture (Nineteenth Century) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Chapter 6. The Newspaper Press: The End of Books? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Chapter 7. Toward the Sense of an Ending (Fin de Siècle to the Present) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 384
Illustrations
- Other: 24 illus.
Keywords: History; European History; World History; Literature; Cultural Studies

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Published: January 21, 2011
ISBN: 9780812204674