Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.

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).

Libro Electrónico

9780812204674




Books--History.--Europe
Printing--Social aspects--History.--Europe
Printing--History.--Europe


Europe--Intellectual life.


Electronic books.

Z124 / .E368 2011

686.2094