Bibliographic Information

Agent of change : print culture studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

edited by Sabrina Alcorn Baron, Eric N. Lindquist, and Eleanor F. Shevlin

(Studies in print culture and the history of the book)

University of Massachusetts Press , Center for the Book, Library of Congress, c2007

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

Available at  / 8 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

"Publications by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein": p. 421-425

Contents of Works

  • Errata lists and the reader as corrector / Ann Blair
  • Counterfeit printing as an agent of diffusion and change : the French book-privilege system and its contradictions (1498-1790) / Jean-Dominique Mellot
  • On the threshold : architecture, paratext, and early print culture / William H. Sherman
  • Moving pictures : Foxe's Martyrs and Little Gidding / Margaret Aston
  • Humphrey Moseley and the invention of English literature / David Scott Kastan
  • "On the behalf of the printers" : a late Stuart printer-author and her causes / Paula McDowell
  • Fixity versus flexibility in "A song on Tom of Danby" and Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel / Harold Love
  • Reinventing Gutenberg : woodblock and movable-type printing in Europe and China / Kai-wing Chow
  • Scotland : international politics, international press / Arthur Williamson
  • Change and the printing press in sixteenth-century Spanish America / Antonio Rodríguez-Buckingham
  • The southern printer as agent of change in the American revolution / Calhoun Winton
  • The printing press and change in the Arab world / Geoffrey Roper
  • Print and the emergence of multiple publics in nineteenth-century Punjab / Vivek Bhandari
  • "Ki ngā pito e whā o te ao nei" (to the four corners of this world) : Maori publishing and writing for nineteenth-century Maori-language newspapers / Jane McRae
  • "Little jobs" : broadsides and the printing revolution / Peter Stallybrass
  • What difference does colonialism make? : reassessing print and social change in an age of global imperialism / Tony Ballantyne
  • The laser printer as an agent of change : fixity and fluxion in the digital age / Barbara A. Brannon
  • The cultural consequences of printing and the Internet / James A. Dewar and Peng Hwa Ang
  • Seeing the world in print / Robert A. Gross
  • The printing revolution : a reappraisal / Roger Chartier

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hbk ISBN 9781558495920

Description

Inspiring debate since the early days of its publication, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein's "The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe" (1979) has exercised its own force as an agent of change in the world of scholarship. Its path-breaking agenda has played a central role in shaping the study of print culture and "book history" - fields of inquiry that rank among the most exciting and vital areas of scholarly endeavor in recent years. Joining together leading voices in the field of print scholarship, this collection of twenty essays affirms the catalytic properties of Eisenstein's study as a stimulus to further inquiry across geographic, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries. From early modern marginalia to the use of architectural title pages in Renaissance books, from the press in Spanish colonial America to print in the Islamic world, from the role of the printed word in nation-building to changing histories of reading in the electronic age, this book addresses the legacy of Eisenstein's work in print culture studies today as it suggests future directions for the field. In addition to a conversation with Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, the book includes contributions by Peng Hwa Ang, Margaret Aston, Tony Ballantyne, Vivek Bhandari, Ann Blair, Barbara A. Brannon, Roger Chartier, Kai-wing Chow, James A. Dewar, Robert A. Gross, David Scott Kastan, Harold Love, Paula McDowell, Jane McRae, Jean-Dominique Mellot, Antonio Rodriguez-Buckingham, Geoffrey Roper, William H. Sherman, Peter Stallybrass, H. Arthur Williamson, and Calhoun Winton.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9781558495937

Description

Inspiring debate since the early days of its publication, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein's ""The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe"" (1979) has exercised its own force as an agent of change in the world of scholarship. Its path-breaking agenda has played a central role in shaping the study of print culture and ""book history"" - fields of inquiry that rank among the most exciting and vital areas of scholarly endeavor in recent years. Joining together leading voices in the field of print scholarship, this collection of twenty essays affirms the catalytic properties of Eisenstein's study as a stimulus to further inquiry across geographic, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries. From early modern marginalia to the use of architectural title pages in Renaissance books, from the press in Spanish colonial America to print in the Islamic world, from the role of the printed word in nation-building to changing histories of reading in the electronic age, this book addresses the legacy of Eisenstein's work in print culture studies today as it suggests future directions for the field. In addition to a conversation with Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, the book includes contributions by Peng Hwa Ang, Margaret Aston, Tony Ballantyne, Vivek Bhandari, Ann Blair, Barbara A. Brannon, Roger Chartier, Kai-wing Chow, James A. Dewar, Robert A. Gross, David Scott Kastan, Harold Love, Paula McDowell, Jane McRae, Jean-Dominique Mellot, Antonio Rodriguez-Buckingham, Geoffrey Roper, William H. Sherman, Peter Stallybrass, H. Arthur Williamson, and Calhoun Winton.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Related Books: 1-1 of 1

Details

Page Top