@book{8166,
  author = {Martyn Lyons},
  title = {A History of Reading and Writing: In the Western World},
  year = {2010},
  pages = {267 pp.},
  publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan},
  address = {New York, NY},
  isbn = {9780230001619},
  note = {Contents:
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-c.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},
  language = {English},
}