Author: Robert Ellis ThompsonPublisher:
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
The American
Author: Robert Ellis ThompsonPublisher:
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Printer's Devil
Author: Bruce MichelsonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520932845
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Trained as a printer when still a boy, and thrilled throughout his life by the automation of printing and the headlong expansion of American publishing, Mark Twain wrote about the consequences of this revolution for culture and for personal identity. Printer’s Devil is the first book to explore these themes in some of Mark Twain's best-known literary works, and in his most daring speculations—on American society, the modern condition, and the nature of the self. Playfully and anxiously, Mark Twain often thought about typeset words and published images as powerful forces—for political and moral change, personal riches and ruin, and epistemological turmoil. In his later years, Mark Twain wrote about the printing press as a center of metaphysical power, a force that could alter the fabric of reality. Studying these themes in Mark Twain’s writings, Bruce Michelson also provides a fascinating overview of technological changes that transformed the American printing and publishing industries during Twain's lifetime, changes that opened new possibilities for content, for speed of production, for the size and diversity of a potential audience, and for international fame. The story of Mark Twain’s life and art, amid this media revolution, is a story with powerful implications for our own time, as we ride another wave of radical change: for printed texts, authors, truth, and consciousness.
The Publishers' Weekly
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382819635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
The Publishers Weekly
Author: American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
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ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
Author: Charles R. RodePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Publishers' Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1930
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The Young Salesman
Author: Horatio Alger (Jr.)Publisher:
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Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
When Scott Walton's father dies, he leaves him with the names of two relatives in America. Penniless, Scott must travel to New York City to meet his uncle, Ezra Little. Mr. Little grudgingly hires Scott, paying him only room and board. While he is staying with his uncle, he meets an older relative of the family, the kind Seth Lawton, who comes to visit. Scott is soon able to get a job as a traveling salesman.
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