Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein. (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book.). Sabrina Alcorn Baron , Eric N. Lindquist , Eleanor F. Shevlin

2009 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-404
Author(s):  
Patricia Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Agent Of Change

Using GIS for Spatial and Temporal Analyses in Print Culture Studies

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 505-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertrum H. MacDonald ◽  
Fiona A. Black
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Printed Materials ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Analyses

In the five centuries since Gutenberg introduced printing with movable type, Western society has been thoroughly infused by print culture.This culture, a complex mosaic of numerous factors, has recently become the focus of extensive historical research.The history of print culture, frequently referred to as the “history of the book,” concerns those aspects of a society that relate to the production, distribution, and reception of printed materials, whether canonical works of literature or ephemeral items such as newspapers and handbills. Authorship, publishing, regulation, bookselling, libraries, and reading are some of the aspects examined. Because print culture permeates all of society, the study of its history has captured the interest of a wide range of researchers: an array of historians of various types and periods (e.g., social, labor, cultural, and legal historians; historians of religion and ideas; and historians of science and technology), literary scholars (of various periods and genres), sociologists, information scientists and librarians, geographers, and bibliographers, among others. As might be expected, scholars of this diversity bring a wide breadth of perspectives to the subject.

scholarly journals From The History of a Book to a "History of the Book"

2009 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Price
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
History Of

The ambition of this article is to wrest attention away from the fraction of any book's life cycle spent in the hands of readers and toward, instead, the whole spectrum of social practices for which printed matter provides a prompt. It asks, how accounts of print culture would look if narrated from the point of view not of human readers and users, but of the book. Turning to the nineteenth-century genre of "it-narrative"——which traces the travel of a book among a series of owners and handlers——it asks how such a narrative might compare to more familiar accounts of selves shaped by texts.

scholarly journals The Curious Case of a "Mayflower Bible"

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Carolyn K. Coates
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Liberal Arts University ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Liberal Arts Institution ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rare Books

A library at a small liberal arts university receives from a donor an old book, which has long been assumed to be a Mayflower Bible. A staff librarian who is not accustomed to dealing with rare books reflects on the process of determining the true identity of the volume, its provenance, and the story behind it, with particular interest in the value of this experience to a library whose special collections are limited. Attention to the history of the book and of print culture demonstrate that even the most unlikely library gifts can serve the liberal arts institution through their value both as text and as artifact.

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