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Making the News
Modernity and the Mass Press in Nineteenth-century France
Av Dean De La Motte, Jeannene M. Przyblyski
Häftad, 1999
666 kr
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Much recent writing on print culture has focused on the social and political implications of the transition from ""elite"" to ""mass"" culture in the 1800s. The essays in this volume aim to add to the understanding of the role of the 19th-century French press in producing the commodities, consumers …
American Architects and Their Books to 1848
Av James F. O'Gorman, Kenneth Hafertepe
Inbunden, 2001
377 kr
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Since the Renaissance, books and drawings have been a primary means of communication among architects and their colleagues and clients. In this volume, 12 historians explore the use of books by architects in America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a period when the profession of …
Perspectives on American Book History
Artifacts and Commentary
Av Scott E. Casper, Joanne D. Chaison m. fl.
2002
551 kr
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A collection of primary source materials and original essays, ""Perspectives on American Book History"" is designed for the growing number of courses in American print culture, as well as a supplement for courses in American literature and history. It seeks to fill the void that has developed as …
Making Meaning
Printers of the Mind and Other Essays
Av Donald Francis McKenzie, Peter D. McDonald m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
441 kr
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The greatest bibliographer of our time, was how historian Robert Darnton described D.F. McKenzie. Yet until now many of McKenzie's major essays, scattered in specialist journals and inaccessible publications, have circulated mainly in tattered photocopies. This volume, edited by two of McKenzie's …
Agent of Change
Print Culture Studies After Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Av Sabrina Alcorn Baron, Eric N. Lindquist m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
643 kr
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Inspiring debate since the early days of its publication, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein's ""The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe"" (1979) has exercised its own force as an agent of change in the world of scholarship. Its …
Holocaust and the Book
Destruction and Preservation
Häftad, 2008
409 kr
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Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany systematically destroyed an estimated 100 million books throughout occupied Europe, an act that was inextricably bound up with the murder of 6 million Jews. By burning and looting libraries and censoring ""un-German"" publications, the Nazis aimed to eradicate …
Popular Print and Popular Medicine
Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America
Häftad, 2008
409 kr
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In this innovative study of the relationship between popular print and popular attitudes toward the body, health, and disease in antebellum America, Thomas A. Horrocks focuses our attention on a publication long neglected by scholars - the almanac. Approaching his subject as both a historian of the …
What Adolescents Ought to Know
Sexual Health Texts in Early Twentieth-Century America
Häftad, 2011
346 kr
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Traces the emergence and marketing of sex education texts —from a single tract, written by a medical researcher and given free to anyone, to a thriving commercial enterprise. It tells the story of how sex education moved from private conversation to purchased text in the early twentieth-century.
Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Reading Revolution
Race, Literacy, Childhood and Fiction, 1851-1911
Häftad, 2011
457 kr
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Explores a transformation in the cultural meaning of Stowe’s influential book by addressing changes in reading practices and a shift in widely shared cultural assumptions. These changes reshaped interpretive conventions and generated new meanings for Stowe’s text in the wake of the Civil War.
From Codex to Hypertext
Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Av Anouk Lang
Häftad, 2012
441 kr
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The start of the twenty-first century has brought with it a rich variety of ways in which readers can connect with one another, access texts, and make sense of what they are reading. At the same time, new technologies have also opened up exciting possibilities for scholars of reading and reception …
Pressing the Fight
Print, Propaganda and the Cold War
Av Gregory Barnhisel, Catherine Turner
Häftad, 2012
409 kr
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Although often framed as an economic, military, and diplomatic confrontation, the Cold War was above all a conflict of ideas. In official pronouncements and publications as well as via radio broadcasts, television, and film, the United States and the Soviet Union both sought to extend their global …
Creating a World on Paper
Harry Fenn's Career in Art
Av Sue Rainey
Inbunden, 2013
582 kr
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Harry Fenn was one of the most skilled and successful illustrators in the United States in the latter half of the nineteenth century, a time when illustrated periodicals and books were the primary means of sharing visual images. Fenn’s work fostered pride in America s scenic landscapes and urban …
1960s Gay Pulp Fiction
The Misplaced Heritage
Av Drewey Wayne Gunn, Jaime Harker
Häftad, 2013
441 kr
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As a result of a series of court cases, by the mid-1960s the U.S. post office could no longer interdict books that contained homosexuality. Gay writers were eager to take advantage of this new freedom, but the only houses poised to capitalise on the outpouring of manuscripts were “adult” paperback …
Suburban Plots
Men at Home in Nineteenth-Century American Print Culture
Häftad, 2014
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In the middle of the nineteenth century, as Americans contended with rapid industrial and technological change, readers relied on periodicals and books for information about their changing world. Within this print culture, a host of writers, editors, architects, and reformers urged men to commute …
History Repeating Itself
The Republication of Children's Historical Literature and the Christian Right
Häftad, 2014
441 kr
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Recently publishers on the Christian Right have been reprinting nineteenth-century children’s history books and marketing them to parents as “anchor texts” for homeschool instruction. Why, Gregory M. Pfitzer asks, would books written more than 150 years ago be presumed suitable for educating …
Thinking Outside the Book
Häftad, 2014
409 kr
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In Thinking Outside the Book, Augusta Rohrbach works through the increasing convergences between digital humanities and literary studies to explore the meaning and primacy of the book as a literary, material, and cultural artifact. Rohrbach assembles a rather unlikely cohort of nineteenth-century …
What Middletown Read
Print Culture in an American Small City
Av Frank Felsenstein, James J. Connolly
Häftad, 2015
398 kr
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The discovery of a large cache of circulation records from the Muncie, Indiana, Public Library in 2003 offers unprecedented detail about American reading behavior at the turn of the twentieth century. Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly have mined these records to produce an in-depth account of …
Translations of Nebrija
Language, Culture, and Circulation in the Early Modern World
Häftad, 2015
366 kr
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In 1495, the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija published a Spanish-to-Latin dictionary that became a best seller. Over the next century it was revised dozens of times, in nine European cities. As these dictionaries made their way around the globe in this age of encounters, their lists of Spanish …
Not Free, not for All
Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow
Av Cheryl Knott
Häftad, 2015
392 kr
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Americans tend to imagine their public libraries as time-honored advocates of equitable access to information for all. Through much of the twentieth century, however, many black Americans were denied access to public libraries or allowed admittance only to separate and smaller buildings and …
Commercializing Childhood
Children's Magazines, Urban Gentility, and the Ideal of the Child Consumer in the United States, 1823-1918
Häftad, 2015
441 kr
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Long before activists raised concerns about the dangers of commercials airing during Saturday morning cartoons, America's young people emerged as a group that businesses should target with goods for sale. As print culture grew rapidly in the nineteenth century, enterprising publishers raced to meet …
Labor of Literature
Democracy and Literary Culture in Modern Chile
Häftad, 2016
356 kr
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By producing literature in nontraditional forms—books made of cardboard trash, posters in subway stations, miniature shopping bags, digital publications, and even children’s toys—Chileans have made and circulated literary objects in defiance of state censorship and independent of capitalist …
Reading America
Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature
Häftad, 2016
441 kr
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During the Cold War, the editor of Time magazine declared, ""A good citizen is a good reader."" As postwar euphoria faded, a wide variety of Americans turned to reading to understand their place in the changing world. Yet, what did it mean to be a good reader? And how did reading make you a good …
Taking Books to the World
American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War
Häftad, 2017
395 kr
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Franklin Publications, or Franklin Book Programs, was started in 1953 as a form of cultural diplomacy. Until it folded in the 1970s, Franklin translated, printed, and distributed American books around the world, with offices in Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Although it …
Made Under Pressure
Literary Translation in the Soviet Union, 1960-1991
Häftad, 2019
441 kr
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During the Cold War, determined translators and publishers based in the Soviet Union worked together to increase the number of foreign literary texts available in Russian, despite fluctuating government restrictions. Based on extensive interviews with literary translators, Made Under Pressure …
Books for Idle Hours
Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading
Häftad, 2018
441 kr
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The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. As an emerging middle class increasingly embraced summer leisure as a marker of social …
Faraway Women and the "Atlantic Monthly
Häftad, 2019
673 kr
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, famed Atlantic Monthly editor Ellery Sedgwick chose to publish a group of nontraditional writers he later referred to as "Faraway Women," working-class authors living in the western United States far from his base in Boston. Cathryn Halverson surveys …
Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Häftad, 2019
409 kr
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The true scale of paper Production in America from 1690 through the end of the nineteenth century was staggering, with a range of parties participating in different ways, from farmers growing flax to textile workers weaving cloth and from housewives saving rags to peddlers collecting them. Making a …
Placing Papers
The American Literary Archives Market
Häftad, 2020
673 kr
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The sale of authors' papers to archives has become big news, with collections from James Baldwin and Arthur Miller fetching record-breaking sums in recent years. Amy Hildreth Chen offers the history of how this multimillion dollar business developed from the mid-twentieth century onward and …
Writing Across the Color Line
U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920
Inbunden, 2020
1163 kr
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The turn of the twentieth century was a period of experimental possibility for U.S. ethnic literature as a number of writers of color began to collaborate with the predominantly white publishing trade to make their work commercially available. In this new book, Lucas A. Dietrich analyzes …
Writing Across the Color Line
U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920
Häftad, 2020
409 kr
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The turn of the twentieth century was a period of experimental possibility for U.S. ethnic literature as a number of writers of color began to collaborate with the predominantly white publishing trade to make their work commercially available. In this new book, Lucas A. Dietrich analyzes …
