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Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis
James J. Connolly (Edited by), Patrick Collier (Edited by), Frank Felsenstein (Edited by), Kenneth R. Hall (Edited by), Robert Hall (Edited by)
9781442650626
Hardback, published 24 March 2016
464 pages, 1 map
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.8 kg
‘A discerning look into provincial reading experiences that will offer an extended view of the world for scholars of sociocultural and print history…Highly recommended.’
Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history, library studies, and communications, Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis rejects the idea that print culture necessarily spreads outwards from capitals and cosmopolitan cities and focuses attention to how the residents of smaller cities, provincial districts, rural settings, and colonial outposts have produced, disseminated, and read print materials. Too often print media has been represented as an engine of metropolitan modernity. Rather than being the passive recipients of print culture generated in city centres, the inhabitants of provinces and colonies have acted independently, as jobbing printers in provincial Britain, black newspaper proprietors in the West Indies, and library patrons in “Middletown,” Indiana, to mention a few examples. This important new book gives us a sophisticated account of how printed materials circulated, a more precise sense of their impact, and a fuller of understanding of how local contexts shaped reading experiences.
Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis: An Introduction Part I: Circulation Non-Metropolitan Printing and Business in Britain and Ireland between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries “I have hitherto been entirely upon the borrowing hand”: The Acquisition and Circulation of Books in Early Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies The 18th- and Early 19th-Century Evolution of Indian Print Culture and Knowledge Networks in Calcutta and Madras Beyond the Market and the City: The Informal Dissemination of Reading Material During the American Civil War Cosmopolitan Ideals, Local Loyalties, and Print Culture: The Career of George Chandler Bragdon In Upstate New York What Travels? The Movement of Movements; or, Ephemeral Bibelots from Paris to Lansing, with Love Circum-Atlantic Print Circuits and Internationalism from the Peripheries in the Interwar Era Part II: Place Uneasy Occupancy: Sarah Grand, The Beth Book and a Colonial Reader Alger, Fosdick, and Stratemeyer in the Heartland: Crossover Reading in Muncie, Indiana, 1891–1902 Romance in the Province: Reading German Novels in Middletown, USA Print Culture and Cosmopolitan Trends in 1890s Muncie, Indiana Zones of Connection: Common Reading in a Regional Australian Library Organized Print: Clara Steen and Institutional Sites of Reading and Writing in the American Midwest, 1895–1920
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