Print culture through the ages : essays on Latin American book history / edited by Blanca López de Mariscal, Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara, Paloma Vargas Montes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

López de Mariscal, Blanca, editor.

Kabalen de Bichara, Donna M., editor.

Vargas Montes, Paloma, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--Latin America--History.

Books.

Books--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

"Print Culture Through the Ages: Essays on Latin American Book History, is a compendium of specialized essays by renowned scholars from Mexico, the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, France, and Colombia that focuses on various topics involving the evolution of printing, reading publics, the publishing process and literary development during periods of political and cultural change in Latin America. The volume has four primary areas of concern, namely "Labors of the Printing Press, Typography and Editing"; "Books and Readers in the Colonial Period"; "New Forms of Literary Consumption"; "The Press and Its Readers". It will be of particular interest to scholars in the areas of literature, book history, print culture and images.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 11, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-9661-6

OCLC:

952338926