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The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture: Volume Six: US Popular Print Culture 1860-1920

Christine Bold

Abstract

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 this series of books devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. This volume explores a cornucopia of U.S. popular print materials from 1860 to 1920, the period when mass culture exploded into the everyday lives of large swathes of the population ... More

Keywords: print culture, print materials, mass culture, working-class, authors, genres

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2011 Print ISBN-13: 9780199234066
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2015 DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199234066.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Christine Bold, editor
Professor of English, School of English & Theatre Studies, University of Guelph

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Front Matter

Title Pages

General Editor’s Introduction

Volume Editor’s Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Selective Chronology 1860–1920

Introduction

Christine Bold

Part I Forms and Technologies of Cultural Production

Chapter 1 The Changing Face of Publishing

Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray

Chapter 2 Story Papers

Lori Merish

Chapter 3 Dime Novels

J. Randolph Cox

Chapter 4 Nineteenth-Century Reprint Libraries

Lydia Cushman Schurman

Chapter 5 Newspapers

Jean M. Lutes

Chapter 6 The Magazine Revolution, 1880–1920

Amanda Hinnant and Berkley Hudson

Chapter 7 American Advertising

Cary Nelson and Mike Chasar

Chapter 8 Postcard Culture in America

Mark Simpson

Chapter 9 Early Motion Pictures and Popular Print Culture

Richard Abel and Amy Rodgers

Chapter 10 Internationalizing the Popular Print Marketplace

Graham Law and Norimasa Morita

Part II Popular Genres

Chapter 11 Labour and Popular Print Culture

Kathryn J. Oberdeck and Frank Tobias Higbie

Chapter 12 American Woman’s Suffrage Print Culture

Mary Chapman and Victoria Lamont

Chapter 13 Religion and Popular Print Culture

Erin A. Smith

Chapter 14 Juvenile Publications

Deidre Johnson

Chapter 15 Westerns

Christine Bold

Chapter 16 Science Fiction

David Seed

Chapter 17 The Humour Industry

Michael H. Epp

Chapter 18 Sensationalism

David M. Stewart

Chapter 19 Popular Poetry in Circulation

Coleman Hutchison and Elizabeth Renker

Part III Sites of Difference and Power

Chapter 20 ‘To make something of the Indian’

Susan Scheckel

Chapter 21 ‘To have the benefit of some special machinery’

Alisha R. Knight

Chapter 22 Mexican / American

Kirsten Silva Gruesz

23 The Yellow Claw

John Kuo Wei Tchen

Chapter 24 A Transatlantic Sensation

Matthew Rubery

Chapter 25 Vision of Pacific Destiny

Yu-Fang Cho

Chapter 26 The American Civil War

Will Kaufman

Chapter 27 Rough Justice

Christopher P. Wilson

Chapter 28 Jacob Riis and Popularizing the Photography of Class Trauma

Keith Gandal

Chapter 29 Understanding Readers of Fiction in American Periodicals, 1880–1914

Charles Johanningsmeier

End Matter

Appendix 1 Additional Topics and Approaches

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Appendix 2 Archival Resources

Index