Divine art, infernal machine : the reception of printing in the West from first impressions to the sense of an ending / / Elizabeth L. Eisenstein.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Material texts
• Physical Description: xiii, 368 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• 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).