Breaking the Book

<p><i>Breaking the Book</i> is a manifesto on the cognitive consequences and emotional effects of human interactions with physical books that reveals why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to ‘digital’ humanities.</p> <ul> <li>Explores the reasons why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to ‘digital humanities'</li> <li>Reveals facets of book history, offering it as an example of how different media shape our modes of thinking and feeling   </li> <li>Gathers together the most important book history and literary criticism concerning the hundred years leading up to the early 19^th-century emergence of mass print culture</li> <li>Predicts effects of the digital revolution on disciplinarity, expertise, and the institutional restructuring of the humanities</li> </ul>