Write a three-page paper that explores one or more of the “social and cultural forces” that have shaped Western civilization as manifested in the history of the printed book since the mid-15th century.
In An Introduction to Book History, the authors cite Michael Winship’s contention that “literature is a human institution, part of a matrix of social and cultural forces from which it emerges, rather than a pure or abstract ideal, independent of history” (25). Based on your reading of Finkelstein and McCleery’s opening chapters, write a three-page […]
