Question

why was the twentieth century called the era of the book?

Answer 1

In terms of the Euro-American tradition, the main periods are captured in the bipartite division, modernist literature  and postmordern litreture, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 respectively, divided, as a rule of thumb, by world war 2. The somewhat malleable term of contemporary literature is usually applied with a post-1960 cutoff point.

Answer 2

Answer:

The twentieth century was called the ‘Era of the Book’ because in those days there were books about everything, from anteaters to Zulus. Books taught people ‘how to’, ‘when to’, ‘where to’ and ‘why to’. They illustrated, educated, punctuated and even decorated.