TY - SER
AU - Martyn Lyons
CY - New York, NY
LA - English
N1 - 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
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
PP - New York, NY
PY - 2010
SN - 9780230001619
EP - 267 pp.
TI - A History of Reading and Writing: In the Western World
ER -