Divine Art, Infernal Machine : : The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending / / Elizabeth L. Eisenstein.
There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, for from its very early days the printing press was viewed by some as black magic. For the most part, however...
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Eisenstein, Elizabeth L., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Divine Art, Infernal Machine : The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending / Elizabeth L. Eisenstein. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (384 p.) : 24 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Material Texts Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Chapter 1. First Impressions -- Chapter 2. After Luther: Civil War in Christendom -- Chapter 3. After Erasmus: Propelling the Knowledge Industry -- Chapter 4. Eighteenth-Century Attitudes -- Chapter 5. The Zenith of Print Culture (Nineteenth Century) -- Chapter 6. The Newspaper Press: The End of Books? -- Chapter 7. Toward the Sense of an Ending (Fin de Siècle to the Present) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, for from its very early days the printing press was viewed by some as black magic. For the most part, however, it was welcomed as a "divine art" by Western churchmen and statesmen. Sixteenth-century Lutherans hailed it for emancipating Germans from papal rule, and seventeenth-century English radicals viewed it as a weapon against bishops and kings. While an early colonial governor of Virginia thanked God for the absence of printing in his colony, a century later, revolutionaries on both sides of the Atlantic paid tribute to Gutenberg for setting in motion an irreversible movement that undermined the rule of priests and kings. Yet scholars continued to praise printing as a peaceful art. They celebrated the advancement of learning while expressing concern about information overload.In Divine Art, Infernal Machine, Eisenstein, author of the hugely influential The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, has written 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. Always keeping an eye on the present, she recalls how, in the nineteenth century, the steam press was seen both as a giant engine of progress and as signaling the end of a golden age. Predictions that the newspaper would supersede the book proved to be false, and Eisenstein is equally skeptical of pronouncements of the supersession of print by the digital.The use of print has always entailed ambivalence about serving the muses as opposed to profiting from the marketing of commodities. Somewhat newer is the tension between the perceived need to preserve an ever-increasing mass of texts against the very real space and resource constraints of bricks-and-mortar libraries. Whatever the multimedia future may hold, Eisenstein notes, our attitudes toward print will never be monolithic. For now, however, reports of its death are greatly exaggerated. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) Books History. Books Europe History. Europe Intellectual Life. Printing History. Printing Social aspects Europe History. Printing Social aspects. Printing Europe History. Literature. HISTORY / Europe / Western. bisacsh Cultural Studies. European History. History. World History. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package World History 9783110413472 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812242805 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204674 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812204674 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812204674/original |
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