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  • Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
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  • edited by Sabrina Alcorn Baron, Eric N. Lindquist, and Eleanor F. Shevlin
  • 2007
  • Published by: University of Massachusetts Press
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Inspiring debate since the early days of its publication, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe (1979) has exercised its own force as an agent of change in the world of scholarship. Its path-breaking agenda has played a central role in shaping the study of print culture and "book history"—fields of inquiry that rank among the most exciting and vital areas of scholarly endeavor in recent years. Joining together leading voices in the field of print scholarship, this collection of twenty essays affirms the catalytic properties of Eisenstein's study as a stimulus to further inquiry across geographic, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries. From early modern marginalia to the use of architectural title pages in Renaissance books, from the press in Spanish colonial America to print in the Islamic world, from the role of the printed word in nation-building to changing histories of reading in the electronic age, this book addresses the legacy of Eisenstein's work in print culture studies today as it suggests future directions for the field. In addition to a conversation with Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, the book includes contributions by Peng Hwa Ang, Margaret Aston, Tony Ballantyne, Vivek Bhandari, Ann Blair, Barbara A. Brannon, Roger Chartier, Kai-wing Chow, James A. Dewar, Robert A. Gross, David Scott Kastan, Harold Love, Paula McDowell, Jane McRae, Jean-Dominique Mellot, Antonio Rodr’guez-Buckingham, Geoffrey Roper, William H. Sherman, Peter Stallybrass, H. Arthur Williamson, and Calhoun Winton.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page
  2. p. iii
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  1. Copyright Page
  2. p. iv
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. pp. v-vii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. ix
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-12
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  1. Part I: Agents, Agency, and Print in Early Modern Europe: Introduction
  2. pp. 13-20
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  1. Chapter 1- Errata Lists and the Reader as Corrector
  2. pp. 21-41
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  1. Chapter 2- Counterfeit Printing as an Agent of Diffusion and Change: The French Book-Privilege System and Its Contradictions (1498–1790)
  2. pp. 42-66
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  1. Chapter 3- On the Threshold: Architecture, Paratext, and Early Print Culture
  2. pp. 67-81
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  1. Chapter 4- Moving Pictures: Foxe’s Martyrs and Little Gidding
  2. pp. 82-104
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  1. Chapter 5- Humphrey Moseley and the Invention of English Literature
  2. pp. 105-124
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  1. Chapter 6- “On the Behalf of the Printers”: A Late Stuart Printer-Author and Her Causes
  2. pp. 125-139
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  1. Chapter 7- Fixity versus Flexibility in “A Song on Tom of Danby” and Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel
  2. pp. 140-155
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  1. Part II: Exchange, Agency, and Adaptation in the Cosmopolitan World of Print Introduction
  2. pp. 157-168
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  1. Chapter 8- Reinventing Gutenberg: Woodblock and Movable-Type Printing in Europe and China
  2. pp. 169-192
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  1. Chapter 9- Scotland: International Politics, International Press
  2. pp. 193-215
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  1. Chapter 10- Change and the Printing Press in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America
  2. pp. 216-237
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  1. Chapter 11- The Southern Printer as Agent of Change in the American Revolution
  2. pp. 238-249
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  1. Chapter 12- The Printing Press and Change in the Arab World
  2. pp. 250-267
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  1. Chapter 13- Print and the Emergence of Multiple Publics in Nineteenth-Century Punjab
  2. pp. 268-286
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  1. Chapter 14- “ Ki ngā pito e whā o te ao nei” (To the four corners of this world): Maori Publishing and Writing for Nineteenth-Century Maori-Language Newspapers
  2. pp. 287-299
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  1. Part III: Agency, Technology, and the New Global Media Revolution: Introduction
  2. pp. 301-314
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  1. Chapter 15- “Little Jobs”: Broadsides and the Printing Revolution
  2. pp. 315-341
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  1. Chapter 16- What Difference Does Colonialism Make?: Reassessing Print and Social Change in an Age of Global Imperialism
  2. pp. 342-352
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  1. Chapter 17- The Laser Printer as an Agent of Change: Fixity and Fluxion in the Digital Age
  2. pp. 353-364
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  1. Chapter 18- The Cultural Consequences of Printing and the Internet
  2. pp. 365-377
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  1. Chapter 19- Seeing the World in Print
  2. pp. 378-396
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  1. Chapter 20- The Printing Revolution: A Reappraisal
  2. pp. 397-408
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  1. A Conversation with Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
  2. pp. 409-419
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  1. Appendix A: Publications by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
  2. pp. 421-425
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  1. Appendix B: Reviews of The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
  2. pp. 426-429
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  1. Notes on Contributors
  2. pp. 431-435
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 437-442
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  1. Back Cover
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