Languages, Books, and Reading from the Printed Word to the Digital Text

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Chartier
Keyword(s):  
Digital Text ◽  
Books And Reading ◽  
Printed Word

Effects of printed word repetition in good and poor readers: An fMRI study

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Einar Mencl ◽  
Stephen J. Frost ◽  
Rebecca Sandak ◽  
Nicole Landi ◽  
Jay Rueckl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Poor Readers ◽  
Word Repetition ◽  
Fmri Study ◽  
Printed Word ◽  
Good And Poor Readers

‘The Days of Thy Youth’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Bouldin
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Women Educators ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Printed Word ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Quaker Women

This chapter explores the range of ideas and activities that engaged Quaker women educators during the eighteenth century, a critical period in the development of Friends’ educational efforts. It analyses key writings of Deborah Bell, Rebecca Jones, and Priscilla Wakefield. These women adopted a variety of approaches to instructing youth, ranging from informal mentorship to formal teaching that stressed a ‘guarded’ (Quaker-only) environment. Bell, Jones, and Wakefield shed light on the leading role that Quaker women played in the education and socialization of young Friends. Their writings highlight the importance of the meetinghouse, the schoolhouse, and the printed word as public venues for women who sought to instil Quaker values in future generations.

Pen, print and communication in the eighteenth century

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Original Narrative ◽  
General Record ◽  
Printed Word ◽  
Political Economic

Pen, print and communication in the eighteenth century is a volume of fourteen essays each of which explores the production, distribution and consumption of both private and public texts during the Enlightenment from a variety of historical, theoretical and critical perspectives.  During the eighteenth century there was a growing interest in recording, listing and documenting the world, whether for personal interest and private consumption, or general record and the greater good. Such documentation was done through both the written and printed word. Each genre had its own material conventions and spawned industries which supported these practices. This volume considers writing and printing in parallel: it highlights the intersections between the two methods of communication; discusses the medium and materiality of the message; considers how writing and printing were deployed in the construction of personal and cultural identities; and explores the different dimensions surrounding the production, distribution and consumption of private and public letters, words and texts during the eighteenth-century. In combination the chapters in this volume consider how the processes of both writing and printing contributed to the creation of cultural identity and taste, assisted in the spread of knowledge and furthered bother personal, political, economic, social and cultural change in Britain and the wider-world. This volume provides and original narrative on the nature of communication and brings a fresh perspective on printing history, print culture and the literate society of the Enlightenment.

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