A History of Reading and Writing
In the Western World
ISBN:
9780230001619
Date published:
October 2009
Hardback
Price:
£52.50 Lyons surveys the changing relationships enjoyed by ordinary men and women with the written word, from early times to the present day. It provides a broad coverage of the social history of reading and writing, relating it to mainstream historical movements such as the Enlightenment and the Reformation.