Title :	The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind : Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe
Material Type:	printed text
Authors:	Roger Chartier, Author
Publisher:	Polity Press
Publication Date:	2014
Pagination:	224 p.
Layout:	ill.
Size:	23 cm.
ISBN (or other code):	978-0-7456-5602-1
General note:	Notes bibliogr. Index
Languages :	English (eng)
Descriptors:	421 writing system : phonetics of standard english
Keywords:	Livres  Histoire  Écrivains  Édition
Abstract:	In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author s or translator s manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof reader who corrected them. The author s hand cannot be separated from the printers mind. This book is devoted to the process of publication of the works that framed their readers representations of the past or of the world. Linking cultural history, textual criticism and bibliographical studies, dealing with canonical works - like Cervantes Don Quixote or Shakespeare s plays - as well as lesser known texts, Roger Chartier identifies the fundamental discontinuities that transformed the circulation of the written word between the invention of printing and the definition, three centuries later, of what we call 'literature'.
Contents note:	Table of Contents: Preface Part I: The Past in the Present 1. Listen to the Dead with Your Eyes 2. History: Reading Time 3. History and Social Science: A Return to Braudel Part II: What is a Book? 4. The Powers of Print 5. The Author s Hand 6. Pauses and Pitches 7. Translation Part III: Texts and Meanings 8. Memory and Writing 9. Paratext and Preliminaries 10. Publishing Cervantes 11. Publishing Shakespeare 12. The Time of the Work.

The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind : Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe [printed text] / Roger Chartier, Author . - Polity Press, 2014 . - 224 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-7456-5602-1
Notes bibliogr. Index
Languages : English (eng)

Descriptors:	421 writing system : phonetics of standard english
Keywords:	Livres  Histoire  Écrivains  Édition
Abstract:	In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author s or translator s manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof reader who corrected them. The author s hand cannot be separated from the printers mind. This book is devoted to the process of publication of the works that framed their readers representations of the past or of the world. Linking cultural history, textual criticism and bibliographical studies, dealing with canonical works - like Cervantes Don Quixote or Shakespeare s plays - as well as lesser known texts, Roger Chartier identifies the fundamental discontinuities that transformed the circulation of the written word between the invention of printing and the definition, three centuries later, of what we call 'literature'.
Contents note:	Table of Contents: Preface Part I: The Past in the Present 1. Listen to the Dead with Your Eyes 2. History: Reading Time 3. History and Social Science: A Return to Braudel Part II: What is a Book? 4. The Powers of Print 5. The Author s Hand 6. Pauses and Pitches 7. Translation Part III: Texts and Meanings 8. Memory and Writing 9. Paratext and Preliminaries 10. Publishing Cervantes 11. Publishing Shakespeare 12. The Time of the Work.