A history of reading and writing in the Western world /

A history of reading and writing in the Western world /

Lyons surveys the changing relationships enjoyed by ordinary men and women with the written word, from early times to the present day.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lyons, Martyn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Subjects:
Books and reading > History.
Books and reading > Europe > History.
Books and reading > Social aspects > History.
Books > History.
Writing > History.
Printing > History.
Written communication > History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Print and popular culture
  • The rise of literacy in the early modern West, c. 1600-c.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
  • Readers and writers in the digital age.

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