Lyons surveys the changing relationships enjoyed by ordinary men and women with the written word, from early times to the present day. It provides a broad coverage of the social history of reading and writing, relating it to mainstream historical movements such as the Enlightenment and the Reformation. INDICE: What is the History of Reading and Writing? - Reading and Writing in the Ancient and Medieval world - Was There a Printing Revolution? - Print and the Protestant Reformation - Renaissance Books and Humanist Readers - Printand Popular Culture - The Rise of Literacy in the Early Modern West, c.1600-1800 - Censorship and the Reading Public in Pre-revolutionary France - The Reading Fever, 1750-1830 - The Age of the Mass Reading Public - New Readers and Reading Cultures - The Democratisation of Writing, 1800 to the Present - Readersand Writers in the Digital Age - Further Reading
- ISBN: 978-0-230-00161-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha Publicación: 23/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés