Literacy and historical development
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Harvey J. Graff.
Contributors: Graff, Harvey J.
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780809327829
Subjects: Literacy -- Europe -- History.; Literacy -- North America -- History.; Printing -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.; Printing -- Social aspects -- North America -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-439) and index.
Table of contents: value: Literacy, myths, and legacies: lessons from the history of literacy / Harvey J. Graff; value: Literate and illiterate; hearing and seeing: England, 1066-1307 / Michael T. Clanchy; value: Some conjectures about the impact of printing on western society and thought: a preliminary report / Elizabeth L. Eisenstein; value: The importance of being printed / Anthony T. Grafton; value: Printing and the people: early modern France / Natalie Zemon Davis; value: Oral culture and the diffusion of reformation ideas / Robert Scribner; value: The literacy myth? illiteracy in Scotland, 1630-1760 / Rab Houston; value: First steps in literacy: the reading and writing experiences of the humblest seventeenth-century spiritual autobiographers / Margaret Spufford; value: The history of literacy in Sweden / Egil Johansson; value: Growth of literacy in colonial America: longitudinal patterns, economic models, and the direction of future research / Farley Grubb; value: Dimensions of illiteracy in England, 1750-1850 / Roger S. Schofield; value: "We slipped and learned to read": slave accounts of the literacy process, 1830-1865 / Janet Cornelius; value: Sense and sensibility: a case study of womens' reading in late-Victorian America / Barbara Sicherman; value: Sponsors of literacy / Deborah Brandt; value: "Welcome to the jam": popular culture, school literacy, and the making of childhoods / Anne Haas Dyson; value: Bibliography of the history of literacy in Europe and North America.