Mandell Breaking the Book

Print Humanities in the Digital Age
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-118-27456-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Manifestos

Breaking the Book is a manifesto on the cognitiveconsequences and emotional effects of human interactions withphysical books that reveals why the traditional humanitiesdisciplines are resistant to 'digital' humanities.
* Explores the reasons why the traditional humanities disciplinesare resistant to 'digital humanities'
* Reveals facets of book history, offering it as an example ofhow different media shape our modes of thinking and feeling
* Gathers together the most important book history and literarycriticism concerning the hundred years leading up to the early19th-century emergence of mass print culture
* Predicts effects of the digital revolution on disciplinarity,expertise, and the institutional restructuring of thehumanities

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mandell, Laura

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Advertisement ix
Part I Pre-Bound 1
1 Language by the Book 3
Part II Bound 69
2 Print Subjectivity, or the Case History 71
3 Distributed Reading, or the Critic Filter 103
Part III Unbound 147
Conclusion 149
Works Cited 187
Index 205

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Mandell is Professor of English Literature and Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A & M University. Her publications include Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1999) and a Longman Cultural Edition of The Castle of Otranto and Man of Feeling. Dr. Mandell is also Director of 18thConnect.org and General Editor of the Poetess Archive.