- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Literary Criticism
Full Description
What did most people read? Where did they get it? Where did it come from? What were its uses in its readers' lives? How was it produced and distributed? What were its relations to the wider world of print culture? How did it develop over time? These questions are central to The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present.
Volume five traces print's role in the lives of a wide variety of people who settled—or who were displaced or forcibly transported by settlers—in middle North America, from colonial beginnings through the mid-nineteenth-century proliferation of industrially-produced imprints until 1860, when the Civil War disrupted longstanding patterns. While the volume takes account of emerging technological and economic developments in production and distribution, it nevertheless through its focus on readers emphasizes surprising continuities over the longue durée of centuries.
Forty-one contributors from across disciplines consider either literary practices of diverse groups or specific genres of popular print passing through people's hands, which included advertisements, almanacs, captivity narratives, ephemera, lithographs, magazines, newspapers, nonfiction, novels, pamphlets, poetry, and slave narratives. In articulating imprint use and genre among groups ranging from free and enslaved blacks to native peoples to women of all races, contributors provide an unusually well-rounded view of print's everyday meanings. Because people often derived those meanings in relation to scribal production and oral communication, the diaries and letters they penned and transcriptions of words they spoke provide much of the book's evidence. The volume ultimately reorients the study of popular print culture in the early US from locally produced printed texts aimed at national readerships to the practices of readers who engaged the broad universe of imprints — not always American—authored-available to them.
Contents
General Editor's Introduction
Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray: Introduction
Part I. Foundations
1: Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray: Print Production and the Book Trades
2: David O. Dowling: Authorship
3: Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray: Readers
4: Jean Ferguson Carr and Stephen L. Carr: Literacy and Education
5: Wayne A. Wiegand: Social, Circulating, and Public Libraries
6: Kristen Doyle Highland: Bookstores and other Retailing
7: Wendy A. Woloson: Itinerant and Informal Distribution
8: Richard B. Kielbowicz: Literature in the Mail
Part II. Preindustrial Era
9: T. J. Tomlin: Almanacs
10: Seth Perry: Bibles, Sermons, and other Religious Publications
11: Billy J. Stratton: Captivity Narratives
12: William Huntting Howell: Ephemera
13: Jennifer Mylander: Imports
14: Jared Gardner: Magazines to 1820
15: Meredith Neuman: Manuscript Culture and Print
16: Carol Sue Humphrey: Newspapers to 1820
17: Sandra M. Gustafson: Oral Genres and Print
18: Michelle Orihel: Pamphlets
Part III. Mass Market Emergence
19: Carl Robert Keyes: Advertising
20: Cynthia Patterson: Illustrated Periodicals
21: Marcy J. Dinius: Lithography, Photography, and Print
22: Tom F. Wright: Lyceums, Public Lectures, and Print
23: Susan Belasco: Magazines from 1820 to 1860
24: Daniel Cavicchi: Music
25: Erika J. Pribanic-Smith: Newspapers from 1820 to 1860
26: Barbara Hochman: Novels
27: Matthew Short and Demian Katz: Story Papers and Pamphlet Novels
28: Michael C. Cohen: Poetry
29: Eileen Ka-May Cheng: Popular Nonfiction
30: Joseph Rezek: Transatlantic Currents in the Literary Book Trade
Part IV. Segmentation and Diversity
31: Eric Gardner: Black Engagement with Print
32: Nicole N. Aljoe: Black Slave Narratives
33: James Emmett Ryan: Catholic Publishing
34: Sarah Wadsworth: Children's Literature
35: Phillip H. Round: Native Imprints and Readers
36: Paul Gutjahr: The Protestant Evangelical Press
37: Teresa A. Goddu: Reform
38: J. Brenton Stewart: Southern Imprints and Readers
39: Montse Feu: Spanish-Language Publications and Readers
40: Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray: Women Writers and Readers
