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
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. Some chapters probe the material conditions, proliferating genres, and cultural work of newly affordable and accessible forms. Other chapters examine additional topics, genres, and approaches. A chronology of the relevant legal, technological, and organisational developments of the period and a list of online and physical archives provide further support for study in this burgeoning field. The book revisions the power of ‘the popular’ in its many meanings — widely circulated, commercialised, vernacular, working-class, cheap, accessible; it recovers and analyses neglected cultural webs and networks, as well as individual authors, famous and forgotten; and it interrogates conventional cultural hierarchies and high/low binaries.
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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