Breaking the Book is a manifesto on the cognitive consequences and emotional effects of human interactions with physical books that reveals why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital' humanities. * Explores the reasons why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital humanities' * Reveals facets of book history, offering it as an example of how different media shape our modes of thinking and feeling * Gathers together the most important book history and literary criticism concerning the hundred years leading up to the early 19th-century emergence of mass print culture * Predicts effects of the digital revolution on disciplinarity, expertise, and the institutional restructuring of the humanities
- ISBN13 9781118274569
- Publish Date 14 May 2015
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 22 July 2015
- Publish Country US
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
- Format eBook
- Pages 240
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=1118274563