A History of Reading and Writing : In the Western World (Paperback)

What is the History of Reading and Writing?.- Reading and Writing in the Ancient and Medieval world.- Was There a Printing Revolution?.- Print and the Protestant Reformation.- Renaissance Books and Humanist Readers.- Print and Popular Culture.- The Rise of Literacy in the Early Modern West, c.1600-1800.- Censorship and the Reading Public in Pre-revolutionary France.- The Reading Fever, 1750-1830.- The Age of the Mass Reading Public.- New Readers and Reading Cultures.- The Democratisation of Writing, 1800 to the Present.- Readers and Writers in the Digital Age .- Further Reading.