Screen LibraryA companion to the history of the book
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470690949 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvi, 599 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780470690949 0470690941 9780470765968 0470765968 9781405127653 1405127651 9781405177443 1405177446 |
| Index Number: | Z4 |
| CLC: | G256.1 |
| Contents: |
Why bibliography matters / What is textual scholarship? / The uses of quantification / Readers : books and biography / The clay tablet book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia / The papyrus roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome / China / Japan, Korea, and Vietnam / South Asia / Latin America / The Hebraic book / The Islamic book / The triumph of the codex : the manuscript book before 1100 / Parchment and paper : manuscript culture 1100-1500 / The Gutenberg revolutions / The book trade comes of age : the sixteenth century / The British book market 1600-1800 / Print and public in Europe 1600-1800 / North America and transatlantic book culture to 1800 / The industrialization of the book 1800-1970 / From few and expensive to many and cheap : the British book market 1800-1890 / A continent of texts : Europe 1800-1890 / Building a national literature : the United States 1800-1890 / The globalization of the book 1800-1970 / Modernity and print I : Britain 1890-1970 / Modernity and print II : Europe 1890-1970 / Modernity and print III : the United States 1890-1970 / Books and bits : texts and technology 1970-2000 / The global market 1970-2000 : producers / The global market 1970-2000 : consumers / Periodicals and periodicity / The importance of ephemera / The new textual technologies / New histories of literacy / Some non-textual uses of books / The book as art / Obscenity, censorship, and modernity / Copyright and the creation of literary property / Libraries and the invention of information / Does the book have a future? / |