The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the 14th and 18th Centuries

Chartier, Roger

ISBN 10: 0804722676 / ISBN 13: 9780804722674

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 1994

1994. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers V9780804722674

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Between the end of the Middle Ages and the eighteenth century, what methods were used to monitor and control the increasing number of texts—from the early handwritten books to the later, printed volumes—that were being put into circulation?In The Order of Books, Chartier examines the different systems required to regulate the world of writing through the centuries, from the registration of titles to the classification of works. The modern world has, he argues, directly inherited the products of this labor: the basic principle of referring to texts, the dream of a universal library, real or imaginary, containing all the works ever written, and the emergence of a new definition of the book leading to some of the innovations that transformed the relationship of the reader to the text.The Order of Books will be welcomed by students and researchers of cultural history, and the history of reading in particular.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Roger Chartier is Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

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Titel: The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and ...
Verlag: Stanford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New