The author's hand and the printer's mind /

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Author / Creator:Chartier, Roger, 1945- author.
Imprint:Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2014.
Description:xiii, 231 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
Subject:Books -- History.
Authorship -- History.
Printing -- History.
Publishers and publishing -- History.
Authorship.
Books.
Printing.
Publishers and publishing.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9785401
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Other authors / contributors:Cochrane, Lydia G., translator.
ISBN:9780745656014
0745656013
9780745656021
0745656021
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-220) and index.
Translated from the French.
Summary:In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author's or translator's manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof reader who corrected them. The author's hand cannot be separated from the printers' mind. This book is devoted to the process of publication of the works that framed their readers' representations of the past or of the world. Linking cultural history, textual criticism and bibliographical studies, dealing with canonical works--like Cervantes' Don Quixote or Shakespeare's plays--as well as lesser known texts, Roger Chartier identifies the fundamental discontinuities that transformed the circulation of the written word between the invention of printing and the definition, three centuries later, of what we call 'literature'.--Back cover.
Standard no.:60001849954

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