Divine art, infernal machine : the reception of printing in the West from first impressions to the sense of an ending
Başlık:
Divine art, infernal machine : the reception of printing in the West from first impressions to the sense of an ending
Yazar:
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.
ISBN:
9780812204674
9780812222166
Yazar:
Yayın Bilgisi:
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011.
Fiziksel Niteleme:
1 online resource (xiii, 368 pages) : illustrations
Seri:
Material texts.
Genel Not:
OldControl:muse9780812204674.
İçindekiler:
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).
Özet:
'Divine Art, Infernal Machine' presents a history of the printing press & of the ambivalent attitudes of the public toward printers & printing since the days of Gutenberg & his business partner Johann Fust, a gentleman often tellingly confused with the notorious Doctor Faustus.
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Elektronik Erişim:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhq4f