A Short Media History of English Literature /

A Short Media History of English Literature / / Ingo Berensmeyer.

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This book explores the history of literature as a history of changing media and modes of communication, from manuscript to print, from the codex to the computer, and from paper to digital platforms. It argues that literature has evolved, and continues to evolve, in sync with material forms and forma...

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Berensmeyer, Ingo,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • I The Age of Performance (since c. 70,000 BCE)
  • 2 Voice and Hand
  • 3 The Medieval and Early Modern Book
  • 4 Theatre and Drama: Liveness on the Stage
  • II The Age of Representation (since c. 1500 CE)
  • 5 Print Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
  • 6 Paper Worlds: The Novel as Object and Form
  • 7 Voice and Breath in Romantic and Victorian Poetry
  • III The Age of Connection (since c. 1850 CE)
  • 8 Touch: Literature as Telecommunication
  • 9 Sound: Phonography, Telephony, Radio, Noise
  • 10 Vision: Text and Image
  • 11 Screen: Literature and the Moving Image
  • 12 Web: Literature in the Digital Age
  • Acknowledgements
  • Timeline
  • List of Illustrations and Table
  • References
  • Index

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