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Divine art, infernal machine : the reception of printing in the West from first impressions to the sense of an ending /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]
Series:Material texts.
Subjects:
Books > Europe > History.
Printing > Social aspects > Europe > History.
Printing > Europe > History.
Europe > Intellectual life.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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 siecle to the present).