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60 years after Understanding Media, McLuhan remains one of the most influential intellectuals of 20th century. This book focusses not so much on his media theory per se as on the habits and practices that animated his reading, and on larger questions of what reading and not reading mean.

The Women of Grub Street examines women's political activity not only as authors, but also as printers, booksellers, ballad-singers, hawkers, and others. Providing a wealth of new information about middling and lower-class women's political and literary lives, this book will be of interest to readers of literature, social and publishing history, women's studies and feminism, and the history of democracy and public discourse.

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Original both in its sources and in the claims it makes for the nature, extent, and complexities of women's participation in print culture and public politics, this book provides a wealth of new information about middle- and lower-class women's political and literary lives, and shows that these women were not merely the passive distributors of other people's political ideas. Quite to the contrary, women of the widest possible variety of socioe...

Just as today's embrace of the digital has sparked interest in the history of print culture, so in eighteenth-century Britain the dramatic proliferation of print gave rise to urgent efforts to historicize different media forms and to understand their unique powers. And so it was, Paula McDowell argues, that our modern concepts of oral culture and print culture began to crystallize, and authors and intellectuals drew on older theological notion...