{"product_id":"divine-art-infernal-machine-the-reception-of-printing-in-the-west-from-first-impressions-to-the-sense-of-an-ending-material-texts-9780812222166","title":"Divine Art Infernal Machine The Reception of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author of the hugely influential The Printing Press as an Agent of Change offers a magisterial and highly readable account of five centuries of ambivalent attitudes toward printing and printers. Once again, she makes a compelling case for the ways in which technological developments and cultural shifts are intimately related.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Eisenstein's research is impressive, reaching far and wide across languages and centuries. Her knowledge of the history of publication engages the wealth of recent scholarship and extends as far back as Roman copyists. . . . Her breadth enables her to identify topoi and their mutations; to observe long-term trends, diminishing ripples, and delayed reactions; and to distinguish what is new or newly dressed in authors' concerns and readers' complaints.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of Scholarly Publishing\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. First Impressions\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: Some Foundation Myths\u003cbr\u003e Initial Reactions: Pros and Cons\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. After Luther: Civil War in Christendom\u003cbr\u003e Printing as a Protestant Weapon\u003cbr\u003e Pamphlet Warfare: ''The Media Explosion'' of the 1640s\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. After Erasmus: Propelling the Knowledge Industry\u003cbr\u003e Celebrating Technology\/Advancement of Learning\u003cbr\u003e Overload: Lost in the Crowd\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Eighteenth-Century Attitudes\u003cbr\u003e Prelude and Preview\u003cbr\u003e Literary Responses: Mystic Art\/Mercenary Trade\u003cbr\u003e Politics in a New Key: The Atlantic Revolutions\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Zenith of Print Culture (Nineteenth Century)\u003cbr\u003e The Revolutionary Aftermath\u003cbr\u003e Tories and Radicals in Great Britain\u003cbr\u003e Steam Presses, Railway Fiction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Newspaper Press: The End of Books?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Toward the Sense of an Ending (Fin de Sie'cle to the Present)\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405700145495,"sku":"9780812222166","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812222166.jpg?v=1730493325","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/divine-art-infernal-machine-the-reception-of-printing-in-the-west-from-first-impressions-to-the-sense-of-an-ending-material-texts-9780812222166","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}