Print Culture In A Diverse America

Author : James Philip Danky,Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0252066995

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Print Culture in a Diverse America by James Philip Danky,Wayne A. Wiegand Pdf

In the modern era, there arose a prolific and vibrant print culture--books, newspapers, and magazines issued by and for diverse, often marginalized, groups. This long-overdue collection offers a unique foray into the multicultural world of reading and readers in the United States. The contributors to this award-winning collection pen interdisciplinary essays that examine the many ways print culture functions within different groups. The essays link gender, class, and ethnicity to the uses and goals of a wide variety of publications and also explore the role print materials play in constructing historical events like the Titanic disaster. Contributors: Lynne M. Adrian, Steven Biel, James P. Danky, Elizabeth Davey, Michael Fultz, Jacqueline Goldsby, Norma Fay Green, Violet Johnson, Elizabeth McHenry, Christine Pawley, Yumei Sun, and Rudolph J. Vecoli

Author : Lara Langer Cohen,Jordan Alexander Stein
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812206296

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Early African American Print Culture by Lara Langer Cohen,Jordan Alexander Stein Pdf

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, yet the two are too rarely considered in tandem. In this landmark volume, a stellar group of established and emerging scholars ranges over periods, locations, and media to explore African Americans' diverse contributions to early American print culture, both on the page and off. The book's chapters consider domestic novels and gallows narratives, Francophone poetry and engravings of Liberia, transatlantic lyrics and San Francisco newspapers. Together, they consider how close attention to the archive can expand the study of African American literature well beyond matters of authorship to include issues of editing, illustration, circulation, and reading—and how this expansion can enrich and transform the study of print culture more generally.

Author : Gary Kelly,Joad Raymond,Christine Bold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : 9780199234066

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The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture by Gary Kelly,Joad Raymond,Christine Bold Pdf

Planned nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present.

Author : Anne Lundin,Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313052408

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Defining Print Culture for Youth by Anne Lundin,Wayne A. Wiegand Pdf

Sponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, this volume features a selection of ten papers compiled from the Center's second national conference, accompanied by a detailed introduction. Presented by scholars from diverse backgrounds, the essays center on the emerging, interdisciplinary field of print culture. They examine children's literature and related print materials from a cultural perspective and discuss the influence of ideological, political, and material factors on the reader. Moreover, the authors join a cultural debate over the nature of childhood in specific historical periods.

Author : Adam R. Nelson,John L. Rudolph
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780299236137

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Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America by Adam R. Nelson,John L. Rudolph Pdf

Vividly revealing the multiple layers on which print has been produced, consumed, regulated, and contested for the purpose of education since the mid-nineteenth century, the historical case studies in Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America deploy a view of education that extends far beyond the confines of traditional classrooms. The nine essays examine “how print educates” in settings as diverse as depression-era work camps, religious training, and broadcast television—all the while revealing the enduring tensions that exist among the controlling interests of print producers and consumers. This volume exposes what counts as education in American society and the many contexts in which education and print intersect. Offering perspectives from print culture history, library and information studies, literary studies, labor history, gender history, the history of race and ethnicity, the history of science and technology, religious studies, and the history of childhood and adolescence, Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America pioneers an investigation into the intersection of education and print culture.

Author : Susan L. Mizruchi
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807887967

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The Rise of Multicultural America by Susan L. Mizruchi Pdf

Between the Civil War and World War I the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history. At the same time, the country experienced unparalleled rates of immigration. In The Rise of Multicultural America, Susan Mizruchi examines the convergence of these two extraordinary developments. No issue was more salient in postbellum American capitalist society, she argues, than the country's bewilderingly diverse population. This era marked the emergence of Americans' self-consciousness about what we today call multiculturalism. Mizruchi approaches this complex development from the perspective of print culture, demonstrating how both popular and elite writers played pivotal roles in articulating the stakes of this national metamorphosis. In a period of widespread literacy, writers assumed a remarkable cultural authority as best-selling works of literature and periodicals reached vast readerships and immigrants could find newspapers and magazines in their native languages. Mizruchi also looks at the work of journalists, photographers, social reformers, intellectuals, and advertisers. Identifying the years between 1865 and 1915 as the founding era of American multiculturalism, Mizruchi provides a historical context that has been overlooked in contemporary debates about race, ethnicity, immigration, and the dynamics of modern capitalist society. Her analysis recuperates a legacy with the potential to both invigorate current battle lines and highlight points of reconciliation.

Author : Faye Hammill,Mark Hussey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781472573278

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Modernism's Print Cultures by Faye Hammill,Mark Hussey Pdf

The print culture of the early twentieth century has become a major area of interest in contemporary Modernist Studies. Modernism's Print Cultures surveys the explosion of scholarship in this field and provides an incisive, well-informed guide for students and scholars alike. Surveying the key critical work of recent decades, the book explores such topics as: - Periodical publishing – from 'little magazines' such as Rhythm to glossy publications such as Vanity Fair - The material aspects of early twentieth-century publishing – small presses, typography, illustration and book design - The circulation of modernist print artefacts through the book trade, libraries, book clubs and cafes - Educational and political print initiatives Including accounts of archival material available online, targeted lists of key further reading and a survey of new trends in the field, this is an essential guide to an important area in the study of modernist literature.

Author : James P. Danky,Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299217841

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Women in Print by James P. Danky,Wayne A. Wiegand Pdf

Women readers, editors, librarians, authors, journalists, booksellers, and others are the subjects in this stimulating new collection on modern print culture. The essays feature women like Marie Mason Potts, editor of Smoke Signals, a mid-twentieth century periodical of the Federated Indians of California; Lois Waisbrooker, publisher of books and journals on female sexuality and women's rights in the decades after the Civil War; and Elizabeth Jordan, author of two novels and editor of Harper's Bazaar from 1900 to 1913. The volume presents a complex and engaging picture of print culture and of the forces that affected women's lives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Published in collaboration among the University of Wisconsin Press, the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America (a joint program of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society), and the University of Wisconsin–Madison General Library System Office of Scholarly Communication.

Author : Shira Wolosky
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031401060

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The Bible in American Poetic Culture by Shira Wolosky Pdf

Author : Brigitte Fielder,Jonathan Senchyne
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299321505

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Against a Sharp White Background by Brigitte Fielder,Jonathan Senchyne Pdf

The work of black writers, editors, publishers, and librarians is deeply embedded in the history of American print culture, from slave narratives to digital databases. While the printed word can seem democratizing, it remains that the infrastructures of print and digital culture can be as limiting as they are enabling. Contributors to this volume explore the relationship between expression and such frameworks, analyzing how different mediums, library catalogs, and search engines shape the production and reception of written and visual culture. Topics include antebellum literature, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement; “post-Black” art, the role of black librarians, and how present-day technologies aid or hinder the discoverability of work by African Americans. Against a Sharp White Background covers elements of production, circulation, and reception of African American writing across a range of genres and contexts. This collection challenges mainstream book history and print culture to understand that race and racialization are inseparable from the study of texts and their technologies.

Author : Simone Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000178296

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Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture by Simone Murray Pdf

Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture examines the role of the book in the modern world. It considers the book’s deeply intertwined relationships with other media through ownership structures, copyright and adaptation, the constantly shifting roles of authors, publishers and readers in the digital ecosystem and the merging of print and digital technologies in contemporary understandings of the book object. Divided into three parts, the book first introduces students to various theories and methods for understanding print culture, demonstrating how the study of the book has grown out of longstanding academic disciplines. The second part surveys key sectors of the contemporary book world – from independent and alternative publishers to editors, booksellers, readers and libraries – focusing on topical debates. In the final part, digital technologies take centre stage as eBook regimes and mass-digitisation projects are examined for what they reveal about information power and access in the twenty-first century. This book provides a fascinating and informative introduction for students of all levels in publishing studies, book history, literature and English, media, communication and cultural studies, cultural sociology, librarianship and archival studies and digital humanities.

Author : Trish Loughran
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231139083

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The Republic in Print by Trish Loughran Pdf

In The Republic in Print, Trish Loughran challenges a dominant narrative about nationalism: the idea that print culture produces nations. Focusing on the years between 1770 and 1870, Loughran develops two richly detailed and provocative arguments. First she argues that it was the lack of national infrastructure (rather than a tightly connected print network) that enabled the nation to be imagined between 1776 and 1790. She then describes how the increasingly connected book market of the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s worked to exacerbate regional differences in ways that contributed to secession and civil war. Drawing on a range of literary, historical, and archival materials, The Republic in Print is a refreshing and original cultural history of the early American nation-state.

Author : Ronald J. Zboray,Mary Saracino Zboray
Publisher : Oxford History of Popular Prin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198734816

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US Popular Print Culture to 1860 by Ronald J. Zboray,Mary Saracino Zboray Pdf

"Devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Helen Sheumaker,Shirley Wajda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781576076484

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Material Culture in America by Helen Sheumaker,Shirley Wajda Pdf

The first encyclopedia to look at the study of material culture (objects, images, spaces technology, production, and consumption), and what it reveals about historical and contemporary life in the United States. Reaching back 400 years, Material Life in America: An Encyclopedia is the first reference showing what the study of material culture reveals about American society—revelations not accessible through traditional sources and methods. In nearly 200 entries, the encyclopedia traces the history of artifacts, concepts and ideas, industries, peoples and cultures, cultural productions, historical forces, periods and styles, religious and secular rituals and traditions, and much more. Everyone from researchers and curators to students and general readers will find example after example of how the objects and environments created or altered by humans reveal as much about American life as diaries, documents, and texts.

Author : Heather A. Haveman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400873883

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Magazines and the Making of America by Heather A. Haveman Pdf

From the colonial era to the onset of the Civil War, Magazines and the Making of America looks at how magazines and the individuals, organizations, and circumstances they connected ushered America into the modern age. How did a magazine industry emerge in the United States, where there were once only amateur authors, clumsy technologies for production and distribution, and sparse reader demand? What legitimated magazines as they competed with other media, such as newspapers, books, and letters? And what role did magazines play in the integration or division of American society? From their first appearance in 1741, magazines brought together like-minded people, wherever they were located and whatever interests they shared. As America became socially differentiated, magazines engaged and empowered diverse communities of faith, purpose, and practice. Religious groups could distinguish themselves from others and demarcate their identities. Social-reform movements could energize activists across the country to push for change. People in specialized occupations could meet and learn from one another to improve their practices. Magazines built translocal communities—collections of people with common interests who were geographically dispersed and could not easily meet face-to-face. By supporting communities that crossed various axes of social structure, magazines also fostered pluralistic integration. Looking at the important role that magazines had in mediating and sustaining critical debates and diverse groups of people, Magazines and the Making of America considers how these print publications helped construct a distinctly American society.