What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading - Rilegato

Price, Leah

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ISBN 10: 0465042686 ISBN 13: 9780465042685

Casa editrice: Basic Books, 2019

Riassunto

Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated

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Informazioni sull?autore

Leah Price has taught English at Cambridge University, Harvard University, and Rutgers University, where from fall 2019 onward she will be founding director of the Rutgers Book Initiative. She is the author How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain and the editor of Unpacking My Library.

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Around 2000, people began to believe that books were on verge of extinction. Their obsolescence, in turn, was expected to doom the habits of mind that longform print had once prompted: the capacity to follow a demanding idea from start to finish, to look beyond the day's news, or even just to be alone. The "death of the book" is an anxiety that has spawned a thousand jeremiads about the dumbing down of American culture, the ever-shorter attention spans of our children, the collapse of civilized discourse.

All of these anxieties rely on the idea of a golden age, when children and adults alike sat quietly for long stretches reading edifying literature that improved our minds and souls. A booklover by temperament as much as profession, literature professor Leah Price wanted to believe that. But as a historian of the book, searching out the traces of long-dead readers through their marginalia and their unbroken spines, she began to wonder if our current digital discontents were stirring up nostalgia for a past that had never existed.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Basic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0465042686
• ISBN 13: 9780465042685
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 214
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile