Robert Darnton on the history of the book, the future of books and reading, and his vision of how new and old media can reinforce each other.
Podcast and video: Robert Darnton, “Books and Libraries in the Digital Age”
Robert Darnton, director of the University Library and the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard, discusses the emergence of the discipline of the history of the book, the future of books and reading, and his own vision of the ways in which new and old media can reinforce each other, strengthening and transforming the world of learning.
The Book as Looking Glass: Improving Works for and about Children in Early Modern England
Exploring three developments pertaining to children and reading in seventeenth-century England, including how profoundly death was implicated in the development of thought about children’s reading.
