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Roger Chartier is professor of history at the Collège de France, Director of Studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
<p>'In these essays on the linguistic, typographical, social andcultural contexts of works by Shakespeare and Cervantes (amongothers), Roger Chartier shows once again his remarkable gifts forclose reading, original observations, and the judicious andfruitful use of sociocultural theory.' Peter Burke, University of Cambridge <p>'These brilliant essays, by the world's foremost historian ofthe book, are an essential guide to the textual labyrinth in whichwe find ourselves, a perplexing maze in which manuscripts, printedbooks, and digital media vie for attention. By looking withsingular learning and insight at early modern texts -- above all,works by Shakespeare and Cervantes -- Chartier enables us tounderstand not only the written traces that have been left by thepast but also the traces that we will leave for the future.' Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University Chartier s essays provide an impressive model for just sucha rigorous and sophisticated investigation of the reading andwriting habits of the past... Andrew G. Bonnell, University of Queensland
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