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Volume 1 of A History of the Book in America, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, encompasses the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is organized around three major themes: the persisting colonial relationship between European settlements and the Old World; the gradual emergence of a pluralistic book trade that differentiated printers from booksellers; and the transition from a 'culture of the Word', organized around an understanding of print as a vehicle of the sacred, to the culture of republicanism, epitomized by Benjamin Franklin, and culminating in the uses of print during the Revolutionary era. The volume will also describe nascent forms of literary and learned culture (including the circulation of manuscripts), literacy and censorship, orality, and the efforts by Europeans to introduce written literary to Native Americans and African Americans.
A History of the Book in America, Volume 1分类索引数据信息
ISBN:9780521482561
出版日期:1999-12-13 适合人群:Academics, Historians, Literary Scholars, Cultural Studies Students, Librarians, Book Lovers, and anyone interested in the evolution of American literature and the history of the book in the United States.