Divine art, infernal machine the reception of printing in the West from first impressions to the sense of an ending /

Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.

Divine art, infernal machine the reception of printing in the West from first impressions to the sense of an ending / [electronic resource] : Elizabeth L. Eisenstein. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011. - xiii, 368 p. : ill. - Material texts .

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).


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780812204674 (electronic bk.)




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


Europe--Intellectual life.


Electronic books.

Z124 / .E368 2011

686.2094