{"product_id":"the-authors-hand-and-the-printers-mind-9780745656014","title":"The Authors Hand and the Printers Mind","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author's or translator's manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof reader who corrected them. The author's hand cannot be separated from the printers' mind. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  This book is devoted to the process of publication of the works that framed their readers' representations of the past or of the world. Linking cultural history, textual criticism and bibliographical studies, dealing with canonical works - like Cervantes' \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e or Shakespeare's plays - as well as lesser known texts, Roger Chartier identifies the fundamental discontinuities that transformed the circulation of the written word between the invention of printing and the definition, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In these essays on the linguistic, typographical, social and cultural contexts of works by Shakespeare and Cervantes (among others), Roger Chartier shows once again his remarkable gifts for close reading, original observations, and the judicious and fruitful use of sociocultural theory.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePeter Burke, University of Cambridge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'These brilliant essays, by the world's foremost historian of the book, are an essential guide to the textual labyrinth in which we find ourselves, a perplexing maze in which manuscripts, printed books, and digital media vie for attention. By looking with singular learning and insight at early modern texts -- above all, works by Shakespeare and Cervantes -- Chartier enables us to understand not only the written traces that have been left by the past but also the traces that we will leave for the future.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eStephen Greenblatt, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Chartier’s essays provide an impressive model for just such a rigorous and sophisticated investigation of the reading and writing habits of the past...\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Andrew G. Bonnell, University of Queensland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Part I: The Past in the Present\u003cbr\u003e 1. Listen to the Dead with Your Eyes\u003cbr\u003e 2. History: Reading Time\u003cbr\u003e 3. History and Social Science: A Return to Braudel\u003cbr\u003e Part II: What is a Book?\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Powers of Print\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Author’s Hand\u003cbr\u003e 6. Pauses and Pitches\u003cbr\u003e 7. Translation\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Texts and Meanings\u003cbr\u003e 8. Memory and Writing\u003cbr\u003e 9. Paratext and Preliminaries\u003cbr\u003e 10. Publishing Cervantes\u003cbr\u003e 11. Publishing Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Time of the Work","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404405154135,"sku":"9780745656014","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745656014.jpg?v=1730486365","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-authors-hand-and-the-printers-mind-9780745656014","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}