The First Media Revolution

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Examines both the rapid evolution of print media from 1660 through to the later eighteenth century brought about by the two-person printing press, and the new genres made possible by this technology: newspapers and magazines, pamphlets, encyclopaedias, cookbooks, comic books, engravings and cartoons, printed music, board games, maps and, of course, novels. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.