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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The shelves of the world's great libraries, though, tell a more complicated story. Examining the wear and tear on the books that they contain, English professor Leah Price finds scant evidence that a golden age of reading ever existed. From the dawn of mass literacy to the invention of the paperback, most readers already skimmed and multitasked. Print-era doctors even forbade the very same silent absorption now recommended as a cure for electronic...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
5 CDs (5 hrs., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look beyond the day's news, the willingness to be alone. The shelves of the world's great libraries, though, tell a more complicated story. Examining the...
Author
Description
"Winner of the 2014 Robert Lowry Patten Award, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900" "Honorable Mention for the 2012 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association" Leah Price is professor of English at Harvard University. She is the author of The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel.
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the...
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