Printed Matters
Printing Publishing and Urban Culture in Europe in the Modern Period
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Published on 10. January 2002
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-7546-0279-8 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays build on the premise that the urban environment was fundamental to the development of printing from the outset, since it was in towns that the necessary combination of technical and entrepreneurial competencies were located, and where a growing demand for printed texts was found. It is with this urban cultural environment that the essays in this collection are principly concerned, and they set out to demonstrate the centrality of printing and publishing to the understanding of urban culture, examined from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The studies focus on a number of specific urban contexts, mainly in France and Germany and in the post 1800 period.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 156 mm
Width: 238 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-0279-8 (9780754602798)
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Content
Rouen and its printers from the 15th to the 19th century; Lyon's printers and booksellers from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century; Gavarni's Parisian population reproduced; the literary dangers of the city - policing immoral books in Berlin, 1850-1880; readers, browsers, strangers, spectators - narrative forms and metropolitan encounters in 20th-century Berlin; commercial spies and cultural invaders - the French press, "Penetration Pacifique" and xenophobic nationalism in the shadow of war; neutrality under threat - freedom, use and "abuse" in Switzerland, 1914-19; the "cultured city" - the art press in Berlin and Paris in the early 20th century; text and image in the constuction of an urban readership - allied propaganda in France during World War II; structures of the typescript.