- Title Pages
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Volume Editor’s Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Selective Chronology 1860–1920
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Changing Face of Publishing
- Chapter 2 Story Papers
- Chapter 3 Dime Novels
- Chapter 4 Nineteenth-Century Reprint Libraries
- Chapter 5 Newspapers
- Chapter 6 The Magazine Revolution, 1880–1920
- Chapter 7 American Advertising
- Chapter 8 Postcard Culture in America
- Chapter 9 Early Motion Pictures and Popular Print Culture
- Chapter 10 Internationalizing the Popular Print Marketplace
- Chapter 11 Labour and Popular Print Culture
- Chapter 12 American Woman’s Suffrage Print Culture
- Chapter 13 Religion and Popular Print Culture
- Chapter 14 Juvenile Publications
- Chapter 15 Westerns
- Chapter 16 Science Fiction
- Chapter 17 The Humour Industry
- Chapter 18 Sensationalism
- Chapter 19 Popular Poetry in Circulation
- Chapter 20 ‘To make something of the Indian’
- Chapter 21 ‘To have the benefit of some special machinery’
- Chapter 22 Mexican / American
- 23 The Yellow Claw
- Chapter 24 A Transatlantic Sensation
- Chapter 25 Vision of Pacific Destiny
- Chapter 26 The American Civil War
- Chapter 27 Rough Justice
- Chapter 28 Jacob Riis and Popularizing the Photography of Class Trauma
- Chapter 29 Understanding Readers of Fiction in American Periodicals, 1880–1914
- Appendix 1 Additional Topics and Approaches
- Appendix 2 Archival Resources
- Index
Introduction
Introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.1) Introduction
- Source:
- The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture
- Author(s):
- Christine Bold
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This book investigates popular print culture in America between 1860 and 1920. It examines the production of popular print forms and the processes underlying their reception, and how cheap publications released by mainstream and alternative presses shaped — and were shaped by — major events of the era such as the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, mass education and women’s enfranchisement, and violence against ethnic groups and ‘new’ immigrants. The book looks at published materials that were newly accessible and affordable in this period, from books and dime novels to newspapers and magazines, advertising leaflets, tracts and pamphlets, and story papers. It also explores how print pervaded other media such as performance, oral expression, and still and moving pictures. The book consists of three parts: Part I considers the material conditions and qualities of popular print forms, Part II focuses on selected genres (literary modes, patterns, and formulas) that proliferated during the period, and Part III presents case studies that offer insights into historicised moments of popular print culture.
Keywords: popular print culture, books, dime novels, newspapers, magazines, advertising leaflets, pamphlets, performance, oral expression, genres
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- Title Pages
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Volume Editor’s Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Selective Chronology 1860–1920
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Changing Face of Publishing
- Chapter 2 Story Papers
- Chapter 3 Dime Novels
- Chapter 4 Nineteenth-Century Reprint Libraries
- Chapter 5 Newspapers
- Chapter 6 The Magazine Revolution, 1880–1920
- Chapter 7 American Advertising
- Chapter 8 Postcard Culture in America
- Chapter 9 Early Motion Pictures and Popular Print Culture
- Chapter 10 Internationalizing the Popular Print Marketplace
- Chapter 11 Labour and Popular Print Culture
- Chapter 12 American Woman’s Suffrage Print Culture
- Chapter 13 Religion and Popular Print Culture
- Chapter 14 Juvenile Publications
- Chapter 15 Westerns
- Chapter 16 Science Fiction
- Chapter 17 The Humour Industry
- Chapter 18 Sensationalism
- Chapter 19 Popular Poetry in Circulation
- Chapter 20 ‘To make something of the Indian’
- Chapter 21 ‘To have the benefit of some special machinery’
- Chapter 22 Mexican / American
- 23 The Yellow Claw
- Chapter 24 A Transatlantic Sensation
- Chapter 25 Vision of Pacific Destiny
- Chapter 26 The American Civil War
- Chapter 27 Rough Justice
- Chapter 28 Jacob Riis and Popularizing the Photography of Class Trauma
- Chapter 29 Understanding Readers of Fiction in American Periodicals, 1880–1914
- Appendix 1 Additional Topics and Approaches
- Appendix 2 Archival Resources
- Index