The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture: Volume Five: US Popular Print Culture to 1860

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Ronald J. Zboray (Professor of Communication and Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh) Mary Saracino Zboray (Visiting Scholar in Communication, University of Pittsburgh)

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture

Volume Five: US Popular Print Culture to 1860

Ronald J. Zboray (Professor of Communication and Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh), Mary Saracino Zboray (Visiting Scholar in Communication, University of Pittsburgh)

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Oxford University Press
28 February 2019

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; History of the Americas; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900

Series: Oxford History of Popular Print Culture

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 settledDLor who were displaced or forcibly transported by settlersDLin 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 DL not always AmericanDLauthored-available to them.

Edited by: Ronald J. Zboray (Professor of Communication and Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies University of Pittsburgh), Mary Saracino Zboray (Visiting Scholar in Communication, University of Pittsburgh)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 251mm, Width: 180mm, Spine: 44mm
Weight: 1.626kg
ISBN: 9780198734819
ISBN 10: 0198734816
Series: Oxford History of Popular Print Culture
Pages: 736
Publication Date: 28 February 2019
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Further / Higher Education , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ronald J. Zboray is Professor of Communication and Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh. Mary Saracino Zboray is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh. The editors have published extensively on antebellum print culture as well as on women's politicization in that era, and they have recently taken up, through numerous essays, print culture during the American Civil War.

Reviews for The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture: Volume Five: US Popular Print Culture to 1860

US Popular Print Culture to 1860, a remarkable collection of forty essays, demonstrates the breadth of the field of print culture studies in the United States and points toward its future potential for literary scholars, historians, and other scholars of the early and antebellum periods. * Jennifer Putzi, William and Mary, Early American Literature *