Breaking the Book: Print Humanities in the Digital Age - Couverture rigide

Mandell, Laura

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1118274555 ISBN 13 : 9781118274552

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015

Synopsis

Breaking the Book is a manifesto on the cognitive consequences and emotional effects of human interactions with physical books that reveals why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital' humanities.

• Explores the reasons why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital humanities'
• Reveals facets of book history, offering it as an example of how different media shape our modes of thinking and feeling   
• Gathers together the most important book history and literary criticism concerning the hundred years leading up to the early 19^th-century emergence of mass print culture
• Predicts effects of the digital revolution on disciplinarity, expertise, and the institutional restructuring of the humanities

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

The Author

Laura Mandell is Professor of English Literature and Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A & M University, USA. 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1118274555
• ISBN 13: 9781118274552
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible