A History of Reading and Writing

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Beschreibung

Martyn Lyons surveys the changing relationships enjoyed by men and women with the written word, from early times to the present day. He provides a highly-readable account of the social history of reading and writing, relating it to key historical moments such as the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Enlightenment.

Offering a fresh history centred on the reactions and experiences of ordinary readers and writers, Lyons deals with key turning points that occurred throughout the centuries, such as the invention of the codex, the transition from scribal to print culture, the reading revolution and the industrialisation of the book.
Tracing the major historical developments across Europe and North America which revolutionised our relationship with texts, this book provides an engaging and invaluable overview of the history of scribal and print culture.

Über den Autor

MARTYN LYONS is Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Zusammenfassung

A wide-ranging overview of the history of reading and writing in western societies from ancient times to the digital age

Inhaltsverzeichnis

What is the History of Reading and Writing?
Reading and Writing in the Ancient and Medieval world
Was There a Printing Revolution?
Print and the Protestant Reformation
Renaissance Books and Humanist Readers
Print and Popular Culture
The Rise of Literacy in the Early Modern West, c.1600-1800
Censorship and the Reading Public in Pre-revolutionary France
The Reading Fever, 1750-1830
The Age of the Mass Reading Public
New Readers and Reading Cultures
The Democratisation of Writing, 1800 to the Present
Readers and Writers in the Digital Age
Further Reading.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	288 S.
ISBN-13:	9780230001626
ISBN-10:	0230001629
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Lyons, Martyn
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL Bloomsbury Academic Macmillan Education
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	234 x 156 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Martyn Lyons
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.03.2017
Gewicht:	0,424 kg