Which Came First
People have had opinions on everything going on inside and around themselves since before Christ but most of those thoughts were kept to oneself or only spread around like gossip. People may have had things they could have said or wanted to say or even did say but it wasn’t until the printing press was made that people started to understand the concept of influence. For that reason, American Literature came first. A person must have a thought to print or printing is obsolete. However, it was the fact that printed materials became influential to societal growth and prosperity that led people to think more about thoughts. Therefor American book publishing actually drove American literature.
Religion, Gods, higher powers of any and every kind have been the backbone of humanity for as long as printed materials can go back (and even before their invention) simply because we need (emphasis on need) to have hope and faith in someone/something as a reason for our existence. Simplicity in this emphatic assertion isn’t usually accepted either as we tend to believe the convoluted story then the provable facts hence the truth is always stranger than any fiction we could invent. “Book production was confined largely to religious centers of learning” (Britannica) for most of its earlier inception despite the fact that “Arab[s] insistence[d] on [the] hand-copying of the Qurʾān”(Britannica). It wasn’t until Johannes Gutenberg of Germany around the mid-1400s that mass-production printing took over Europe. “Gutenberg’s achievement was not a single invention but a whole new craft involving movable metal type, ink, paper, and press. In less than 50 years it had been carried through most of Europe, largely by German printers.”(Britannica) Within this timeframe of the book publishing concept and process is where it took over the driver's seat for literature.
Due to the progression book publishing had started to gain and maintain in Europe and other Eastern Cultures by the time it hit North America book publishing was clearly the driving force behind American literature. Publishing may have started as a way to spread “proclamations, correspondence, transactions, and records” (Britannica) as well as religious beliefs but it quickly got recognized for its ability to mass influence and manipulate the basic needs of humanity. For that reason, by the time it hit North American markets book publishing drove the creation of literature for the purpose of influencing this new world’s societal and economic ways of life.
Works Cited:
People have had opinions on everything going on inside and around themselves since before Christ but most of those thoughts were kept to oneself or only spread around like gossip. People may have had things they could have said or wanted to say or even did say but it wasn’t until the printing press was made that people started to understand the concept of influence. For that reason, American Literature came first. A person must have a thought to print or printing is obsolete. However, it was the fact that printed materials became influential to societal growth and prosperity that led people to think more about thoughts. Therefor American book publishing actually drove American literature.
Religion, Gods, higher powers of any and every kind have been the backbone of humanity for as long as printed materials can go back (and even before their invention) simply because we need (emphasis on need) to have hope and faith in someone/something as a reason for our existence. Simplicity in this emphatic assertion isn’t usually accepted either as we tend to believe the convoluted story then the provable facts hence the truth is always stranger than any fiction we could invent. “Book production was confined largely to religious centers of learning” (Britannica) for most of its earlier inception despite the fact that “Arab[s] insistence[d] on [the] hand-copying of the Qurʾān”(Britannica). It wasn’t until Johannes Gutenberg of Germany around the mid-1400s that mass-production printing took over Europe. “Gutenberg’s achievement was not a single invention but a whole new craft involving movable metal type, ink, paper, and press. In less than 50 years it had been carried through most of Europe, largely by German printers.”(Britannica) Within this timeframe of the book publishing concept and process is where it took over the driver's seat for literature.
Due to the progression book publishing had started to gain and maintain in Europe and other Eastern Cultures by the time it hit North America book publishing was clearly the driving force behind American literature. Publishing may have started as a way to spread “proclamations, correspondence, transactions, and records” (Britannica) as well as religious beliefs but it quickly got recognized for its ability to mass influence and manipulate the basic needs of humanity. For that reason, by the time it hit North American markets book publishing drove the creation of literature for the purpose of influencing this new world’s societal and economic ways of life.
Works Cited:
- "History of publishing." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 15 Nov. 2017. academic.eb.com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/levels/collegiate/article/history-of-publishing/109461. Accessed 25 Feb. 2018.
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