History of Reading and Writing In the Western World

Name: History of Reading and Writing In the Western World
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ISBN: 9780230001626

ISBN-10: 0230001629

ISBN-13: 9780230001626

Edition: 2010

Authors: Martyn Lyons

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List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 11/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Martyn Lyons is Professor in the School of History and Philosophy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.



List of Tables and Illustrations


Abbreviations



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-c. 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


Notes


Further reading


Index