LEADER 03477nam 2200553zu 450 001 996708682703316 005 20260209120516.0 010 $a3-11-153459-6 010 $a3-11-078445-9 010 $a9783110784459 010 $a3110784459 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110784459 035 $a(CKB)37376361200041 035 $a(Perlego)3540508 035 $a(NjHacI)9937376361200041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937376361200041 100 $a20220622d2022 uy | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aA Short Media History of English Literature 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cDe Gruyter$d2022 210 1$aBerlin :$cDe Gruyter,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource 311 08$a3-11-078442-4 311 08$a3-11-078447-5 311 08$a9783110784428 311 08$a3110784424 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$t1 Introduction --$tI The Age of Performance (since c. 70,000 BCE) --$t2 Voice and Hand --$t3 The Medieval and Early Modern Book --$t4 Theatre and Drama: Liveness on the Stage --$tII The Age of Representation (since c. 1500 CE) --$t5 Print Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century --$t6 Paper Worlds: The Novel as Object and Form --$t7 Voice and Breath in Romantic and Victorian Poetry --$tIII The Age of Connection (since c. 1850 CE) --$t8 Touch: Literature as Telecommunication --$t9 Sound: Phonography, Telephony, Radio, Noise --$t10 Vision: Text and Image --$t11 Screen: Literature and the Moving Image --$t12 Web: Literature in the Digital Age --$tAcknowledgements --$tTimeline --$tList of Illustrations and Table --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 8 $aThis book explores the history of literature as a history of changing media and modes of communication, from manuscript to print, from the codex to the computer, and from paper to digital platforms. It argues that literature has evolved, and continues to evolve, in sync with material forms and formats that engage our senses in multiple ways. Because literary experiences are embedded in, and enabled by, media, the book focuses on literature as a changing combination of material and immaterial features. The principal agents of this history are no longer genres, authors, and texts but configurations of media and technologies. In telling the story of these combinations from prehistory to the present, Ingo Berensmeyer distinguishes between three successive dominants of media usage that have shaped literary history: performance, representation, and connection. Using English literature as a test case for a long view of media history, this book combines an unusual bird's eye view across periods with illuminating readings of key texts. It will prove an invaluable resource for teaching and for independent study in English or comparative literature and media studies. 606 $aCommunication$xHistory 606 $aCommunication$xSocial aspects 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$xPress coverage 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$xIn mass media 607 $aGreat Britain$2fast 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aCommunication$xHistory. 615 0$aCommunication$xSocial aspects. 676 $a302.23 700 $aBerensmeyer$b Ingo$0897674 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996708682703316 996 $aA Short Media History of English Literature$92903799 997 $aUNISA