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Perspectives on American book history : artifacts and commentary / edited by Scott E. Casper, Joanne D. Chaison, and Jeffrey D. Groves.

Van Pelt Library Z471 .P47 2002 1 v. + CD-ROM
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Casper, Scott E.
Chaison, Joanne D., 1944-
Groves, Jeffrey D., 1959-
George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
Series:
Studies in print culture and the history of the book
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Book industries and trade--United States--History--Sources.
Book industries and trade.
Publishers and publishing--United States--History--Sources.
Publishers and publishing.
Books and reading--United States--History--Sources.
Books and reading.
Book industries and trade--Social aspects--United States.
Publishers and publishing--Social aspects--United States.
Books and reading--Social aspects--United States.
Books and reading--Social aspects.
Publishers and publishing--Social aspects.
Book industries and trade--Social aspects.
History.
United States--Intellectual life.
United States.
Intellectual life.
Genre:
Sources.
Physical Description:
ix, 461 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
Place of Publication:
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2002]
System Details:
System requirements for disc: Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator).
text file
Summary:
An introduction to print culture in America, accompanied by a CD-ROM image archive.
Contents:
1 Texts for the Times: An Introduction to Book History / Robert A. Gross 1
2 Literacy and Reading in Puritan New England / Jill Lepore 17
3 Print and Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century / Patricia Crain 47
4 Publishing the American Revolution / Russell L. Martin 79
5 The Book Trade Transformed / Jeffrey D. Groves 109
6 Antebellum Reading Prescribed and Described / Scott E. Casper 135
7 Publishing an Emergent "American" Literature / Susan S. Williams 165
8 Northern and Southern Worlds of Print / Alice Fahs 195
9 Reshaping Publishing and Authorship in the Gilded Age / Nancy Cook 223
10 Print Cultures in the American West / Jen A. Huntley-Smith 255
11 Laboring Classes, New Readers, and Print Cultures / Ann Fabian 285
12 The Industrialization and Nationalization of American Periodical Publishing / Charles Johanningsmeier 311
13 Print and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture / Trysh Travis 339
14 Out of the Mainstream and into the Streets: Small Press Magazines, the Underground Press, Zines, and Artists' Books / Ellen Gruber Garvey 367
15 Newspapers since 1945 / Glenn Wallach 403
16 The Once and Future Book / Scott E. Casper, Joanne D. Chaison, Jeffrey D. Groves 435
17 Resources for Studying American Book History: A Selective, Annotated Bibliography / Joanne D. Chaison 441.
Notes:
"In association with American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, and the Center of the Book, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C."
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
ISBN:
1558493166
1558493174
OCLC:
48475619

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