The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making
by:
Adrian Johns (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00EDZ9IFG
Publish date: October 15th 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 776
Edition language: English
This lengthy and discursive tome is certainly an effective corrective to a facile schema of the history of the written word, where modern print culture is envisioned arising from the invention of the Gutenberg press like Botticelli's Venus and contrasted with the most ridiculous and over the top car...