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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
550 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 …
St.Augustine's Bones
A Microhistory
Häftad, 2003
427 kr
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In 1695, workers in Pavia, Italy, chanced upon a collection of bones in the crypt of the Cathedral of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro. The workers later testified that they had seen the name of St Augustine written in charcoal on the surface of the casket they had uncovered. Yet by the time of the …
James Laughlin, New Directions Press, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound
Inbunden, 2005
462 kr
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Although James Laughlin (1914-1997) came from one of Pittsburgh's leading steel-making families, his passions were literary rather than industrial - he wanted to be a poet. Laughlin was a freshman at Harvard when he traveled to Rapallo, Italy, in 1933 to meet Ezra Pound (1885-1972), and he returned …
In the Company of Books
Literature and Its ""Classes"" in Nineteenth-century America
Häftad, 2006
447 kr
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A vital feature of American culture in the nineteenth century was the growing awareness that the literary marketplace consisted not of a single, unified, relatively homogeneous reading public, but rather of many disparate, overlapping reading communities differentiated by interests, class, and …
Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America
Häftad, 2007
448 kr
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An experienced teacher of reading and writing and an award-winning historian, E. Jennifer Monaghan brings to vibrant life the process of learning to read and write in colonial America. Ranging throughout the colonies from New Hampshire to Georgia, she examines the instruction of girls and boys, …
What a Book Can Do
The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring
Häftad, 2007
389 kr
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In 1962, the publication of Rachel Carson's ""Silent Spring"" sparked widespread public debate on the hazards of pesticide abuse for humans and their environment. With in a year, the controversy had spread throughout print and broadcast media. Despite its preliminary appearance in a magazine, …
Institutions of Reading
The Social Life of Libraries in the United States
Av Thomas Augst, Kenneth Carpenter
Häftad, 2007
448 kr
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Tracing the evolution of the library as a modern institution from the late eighteenth century to the digital era, this book explores the diverse practices by which Americans have shared reading matter for instruction, edification, and pleasure. Writing from a rich variety of perspectives, the …
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 …
America the Middlebrow
Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship Between the Wars
Av Jaime Harker
Häftad, 2007
447 kr
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Between the two world wars, American publishing entered a ""golden age"" characterized by an explosion of new publishers, authors, audiences, distribution strategies, and marketing techniques. The period was distinguished by a diverse literary culture, ranging from modern cultural rebels to …
American Architects and Their Books, 1840-1915
Av Kenneth Hafertepe, James F. O'Gorman
Inbunden, 2007
511 kr
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Since the Renaissance, architects have been authors and architecture has been the subject of publications. Architectural forms and theories are spread not just by buildings, but by the distribution of images and descriptions fed through the printing press. The study of an architect's library is an …
Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840-1920
Häftad, 2008
432 kr
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Prior to the mid-nineteenth century, most Americans ""heard"" rather than ""read"" national history. They absorbed lessons from the past more readily by attending Patriots' Day orations and anniversary commemorations than by reading expensive, multivolume works of patrician historians. By the …
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 …
Reading Places
Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America
Häftad, 2010
441 kr
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This book recounts the history of an experimental regional library service in the early 1950s, a story that has implications far beyond the two Wisconsin counties where it took place. Using interviews and library records, Christine Pawley reveals the choices of ordinary individual readers, showing …
What Adolescents Ought to Know
Sexual Health Texts in Early Twentieth-Century America
Häftad, 2011
345 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.
Right Here I See My Own Books
The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition
Av Sarah Wadsworth, Wayne A. Wiegand
Häftad, 2012
482 kr
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On May 1, 1893, the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago opened its gates to an expectant public eager to experience firsthand its architectural beauty, technological marvels, and vast array of cultural treasures gathered from all over the world. Among the most popular of the fair’s attractions …
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 …
Publisher's Paradise
Expatriate Literary Culture in Paris, 1890-1960
Häftad, 2013
500 kr
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From 1890 to 1960, some of Anglo-America’s most heated cultural contests over books, sex, and censorship were staged not at home, but abroad in the City of Light. Paris, with its extraordinary liberties of expression, became a special place for interrogating the margins of sexual culture and …
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
409 kr
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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
397 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 …
