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Popular conceptions of Catholic censorship, symbolized above all by the 'Index of Forbidden Books', figure prominently in secular definitions of freedom. To be intellectually free is to enjoy access to knowledge unimpeded by any religious authority. But how would the history of …
Popular conceptions of Catholic censorship, symbolized above all by the 'Index of Forbidden Books', figure prominently in secular definitions of freedom. To be intellectually free is to enjoy access to knowledge unimpeded by any religious authority. But how would the history of …
Popular conceptions of Catholic censorship, symbolized above all by the Index of Forbidden Books, figure prominently in secular definitions of freedom. To be intellectually free is to enjoy access to knowledge unimpeded by any religious authority. But how would the history of fr…
'Consuming Texts' explores the history of reading in the British Isles during aperiod in which the printed word became all pervasive. Beginning with an overview of recent work, it goes on to provide a series of case studies of individual readers and the communities to which they…
"Consuming Texts explores the history of reading in the British Isles during a period in which the printed word became all-pervasive. Beginning with an overview of recent work on this topic, it goes on to provide a series of case studies of individual readers and the communities…
Reader's Liberation addresses questions of what we should be reading to obtain information, examining how past readers encountered the same problems that today's readers face, and how they dealt with them.
Reader's Liberation addresses questions of what we should be reading to obtain information, examining how past readers encountered the same problems that today's readers face, and how they dealt with them.
While it is divided into three main sections, this book makes clear that the relationships between the making of books in certain geographical contexts, the movement of books (epistemologically as well as geographically), and the reception of and reaction to books are complex.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Book Geography, Book History -- PART I GEOGRAPHIES OF PRODUCTION -- 1 The Amusements of Posterity: Print Against Empire in Late Eighteenth-Century Bengal -- 2 Steam and the Lands…