Divine Art, Infernal Machine The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending / [Recurso electrónico] :
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein.
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 368 p. :) ill. ;
- Material texts .
- Material texts. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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).