This is a study of the forms and institutions of print-newspapers, books, scholarly editions,
publishing, libraries-as they relate to and are changed by emergent digital forms and …

Whosoever loves not picture, is injurious to truth: and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the
invention of heaven: the most ancient, and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work: and …

Breaking the Book is a manifesto on the cognitive consequences and emotional effects of
human interactions with physical books that reveals why the traditional humanities …

A sophisticated consideration of technologies of reading in the digital age." Every reading is,
strictly speaking, unrepeatable; something in it, of it, will vary. Recollections of reading …

The Scriptorium was in turmoil. Brother Paul, the precentor in charge, had detected a
murmur from the back row and, furious that the rule of silence was being compromised …

The legacy of early digital editions and their related scholarship reveals the textual
foundation of digital literary studies, a foundation that emphasized form and materiality, in …

The transition from analog to digital media is perhaps too readily understood as a shift from
continuity to fragmentation, from narration to archeology. One might instead view it as a …

This is a portion of the eBook at doi: 10.7551/mitpress/2694.001. 0001 cultural studies by the
late 1980s drew a vast array of visual artifacts—maps, engravings, drawings, paintings …

Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture examines the role of the book in the modern
world. It considers the book's deeply intertwined relationships with other media through …

Abstracting Reality considers the relationship between digital technology and culture and
their mutual influences on each other. The book begins with an examination of how …