Protest on the page : essays on print and the culture of dissent since 1865 / edited by James L. Baughman, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, James P. Danky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baughman, James L., 1952-2016, editor.

Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer, editor.

Danky, James Philip, 1947- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

History of print and digital culture

The history of print and digital culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Underground press publications--United States--History.

Underground press publications.

Press and politics--United States--History.

Press and politics.

Protest literature, American.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2015]

Summary:

"The use of print to challenge prevailing ideas and conventions has a long history in American public life. As dissenters in America sought social change, they used print to document, articulate, and disseminate their ideas to others. Protest always begins on the margins, but print is the medium that allows it to reach a larger audience. In Protest on the Page, scholars in multiple disciplines offer ten original essays that examine protest print culture in America since 1865. They explore the surprising range of dissidents who enlisted print in their causes--from vegetarians and anarchists at the advent of the twentieth century, to midcentury evangelicals and tween comic book readers, to GIs and feminists in the 1970s-'80s. Together they demonstrate that print has never been a neutral medium, but rather has been instrumental in shaping the substance of protest and its audiences."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Preface: Protest and print culture in America / James P. Danky

"A necessary relation": protest and American print culture / James L. Baughman

Part 1: Reaction and revolt. Writing redemption: racially ambiguous carpetbaggers and the Southern print culture campaign against Reconstruction / Adam Thomas

The inky protest of an anarchist printmaker: Carlo Abate's newspaper illustrations and the artist's hand in the age of mechanical reproduction / Andrew D. Hoyt

Spanish-language anarchist periodicals in early twentieth-century United States / Nicolas Kanellos

Pamphlets of self-determination: dissident literature, productive fiction / Trevor Joy Sangrey

Part 2: Consensus contested. By the pinch and the pound: American vegetarian cookbooks from the nineteenth century to the present / Laura J. Miller and Emilie Hardman

Meeting the modernistic tide: the book as evangelical battleground in the 1940s / Daniel Vaca

Children and the comics: young readers take on the critics / Carol L. Tilley

Part 3: Dangerous print. Paper soldiers: The Ally and the GI underground press during the Vietnam War / Derek Seidman

The clowning of Richard Nixon in the underground press / Micah Robbins

off/On Our Backs: the feminist press in the "sex wars" of the 1980s / Joyce M. Latham.

Notes:

"This collection includes papers originally presented at a September 2012 conference sponsored by the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, in Madison, Wisconsin"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780299302849

0299302849

OCLC:

885547664

Online:

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