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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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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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.