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The prosthetic tongue : printing technology and the rise of the French language / Katie Chenoweth.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PC2079 .C48 2019
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LIBRA PC2079 .C48 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chenoweth, Katie, author.
- Series:
- Material texts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French language--History--16th century.
- French language.
- Printing--France--History--16th century.
- Printing.
- Mass media and language.
- History.
- France.
- Mass media and language--France--History--16th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 350 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "The Prosthetic Tongue charts the technological reinvention of French across a range of domains-from typography, orthography, and grammar, to politics, pedagogy, and poetics-over the course of two transformative decades in the sixteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780812251494
- 0812251490
- OCLC:
- 1097960903
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