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Printer's devil [[electronic resource] ] : Mark Twain and the American publishing revolution / / Bruce Michelson



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Autore: Michelson Bruce <1948-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Printer's devil [[electronic resource] ] : Mark Twain and the American publishing revolution / / Bruce Michelson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
Disciplina: 818/.409
Soggetto topico: Printing in literature
Printing - United States - History - 19th century
Publishers and publishing - United States - History - 19th century
Authors and publishers - United States - History - 19th century
Soggetto non controllato: american publishing history
americana
consequences of a revolution
cultural revolution
easy to read
editing and publishing
engaging
epistemological
epistemology
famous american writers
historical
history of publishing
international fame
life changes
lifetime
lively
media revolution
metaphysical power
printing press
publishing and printing industry
radical change
retrospective
typesetting
wood cutting
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Sam Clemens and the printed word -- The mischief of the press -- "But now everybody goes everywhere" -- Huckleberry Finn and the American print revolution -- Mark Twain and the information age -- Afterword : Mark Twain for the next fifteen minutes.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Printer's devil  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-93284-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910779540703321
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