The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture

Volume Six: US Popular Print Culture 1860-1920

Edited by Christine Bold

Oxford History of Popular Print Culture

The richest, most culturally diverse gathering of US popular print forms in the period 1860-1920 discussed in one volume
Eclectic, multidisciplinary approaches by an international team of contributors
Tripartite organization of essays into 'Forms And Technologies Of Cultural Production', 'Popular Genres', and 'Case Studies', which highlights complementary ways of conceptualizing the field and combines breadth of coverage with in-depth enquiry
Extensive primary and secondary documentation showcase new work in the field and enable further study

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture

Volume Six: US Popular Print Culture 1860-1920

Edited by Christine Bold

Oxford History of Popular Print Culture

Description

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 toThe Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present.

Volume six explores a cornucopia of US popular print materials from 1860 to 1920, the period when mass culture exploded into the everyday lives of large swathes of the population. Thirty specially written essays by scholars from a wide range of disciplines - history of the book; literary, cultural, media, and film studies; social history, journalism, and American Studies - probe the material conditions, proliferating genres, and cultural work of newly affordable and accessible forms. A dozen short entries address additional topics, genres, and approaches. A chronology of the relevant legal, technological, and organizational developments of the period and a list of online and physical archives provide further support for study in this burgeoning field. Cumulatively, the volume 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.

The volume pursues some key issues in rich archival and analytical detail. How did new technologies of production and distribution shape a plethora of print forms, including advertising leaflets, postcards, tracts, pamphlets, dime novels, story papers, newspapers, magazines, and cheap books? How did upheavals in the publishing industry and new regulatory mechanisms affect circulation and consumption? How did various genres mediate social and political transformations of the period? How did popular print forms consolidate transnational and borderlands networks? How were particular cultural communities, including Native American, African American, Asian American, and Mexican / America alternately served and oppressed by popular print? How was it seized in support of labour and woman suffrage, and how was it wielded by governmental and educational institutions? How did print interact with other media?

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture

Volume Six: US Popular Print Culture 1860-1920

Edited by Christine Bold

Oxford History of Popular Print Culture

General Editor's Introduction
Volume Editor's Introduction
I. Forms And Technologies Of Cultural Production
1. The Changing Face of Publishing, Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zbora
2. Story Paper Fiction, Lori Merish
3. Dime Novels, J. Randolph Cox
4. Nineteenth-Century Reprint Libraries: When a Book Was Not a Book, Lydia Cushman Schurman
5. Newspapers, Jean M. Lutes
6. The Magazine Revolution, 1880-1920, Amanda Hinnant and Berkley Hudson
7. American Advertising: A Poem for Every Product, Cary Nelson and Mike Chasar
8. Postcard Culture in America: The Traffic in Traffic, Mark Simpson
9. Early Motion Pictures and Popular Print Culture: A Web of Ephemera, Richard Abel and Amy Rodgers
10. Internationalizing the Popular Print Marketplace, Graham Law and Norimasa Morita
II. Popular Genres
11. Religion and Popular Print Culture, Erin A. Smith
12. Labour and Popular Print Culture, Kathryn J. Oberdeck and Frank Tobias Higbie
13. Juvenile Publications, Deidre Johnson
14. Westerns, Christine Bold
15. Science Fiction, David Seed
16. The Humour Industry, Michael H. Epp
17. Sensationalism, David M. Stewart
18. Popular Poetry in Circulation, Coleman Hutchison and Elizabeth Renker
19. The American Civil War, Will Kaufman
III. Case Studies
20. 'To make something of the Indian': Hampton Institute and the Uses of Popular Print Culture, Susan Scheckel
21. 'To have the benefit of some special machinery': African American Book Publishing and Bookselling, 1900-1920, Alisha R. Knight
22. Mexican / American: The Making of Borderlands Print Culture, Kirsten Silva Gruesz
23. The Yellow Claw: The Optical Unconscious in Anglo-American Political Culture, John Kuo Wei Tchen
24. A Transatlantic Sensation: Stanley's Search for Livingstone and the Anglo-American Press, Matthew Rubery
25. Vision of Pacific Destiny: Imperial Geographies in the Overland Monthly, 1898-1900, Yu-Fang Cho
26. Rough Justice: Crime, Corruption, and Urban Governance, Christopher P. Wilson
27. Jacob Riis and Popularizing the Photography of Class Trauma, Keith Gandal
28. American Suffrage Print Culture, Mary Chapman and Victoria Lamont
29. Understanding Readers of Fiction in American Periodicals, 1880-1914, Charles Johanningsmeier
IV. Appendices
1. Additional topics: Advice Manuals and Self-Help Books, Detective Fiction, Literacy, Performance and Popular Print Culture, Photography and Popular Print Culture, Popular History, Popular Science, Pulp Magazines, Scrapbooks, Sentimentalism, Sports and Popular Print Culture, Workers' Autobiographies
2. Selective Chronology
3. Archival Resources

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture

Volume Six: US Popular Print Culture 1860-1920

Edited by Christine Bold

Oxford History of Popular Print Culture

Author Information

Christine Bold is Professor of English at the University of Guelph. She is the author of three books -Selling the Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860-1960 , The WPA Guides: Mapping America , and Writers, Plumbers, and Anarchists: The WPA Writers' Project in Massachusetts - as well as numerous chapters and articles on popular culture and cultural memory. She has also co-authored the award-winning book Remembering Women Murdered by Men: Memorials across Canada by the Cultural Memory Group, a collaboration between academics and social justice workers. She reviews regularly for the Times Literary Supplement , and she is currently writing a book titled The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924.

Contributors:

Richard Abel, University of Michigan
Christine Bold, University of Guelph
Mary Chapman, University of British Columbia
Mike Chasar, Willamette University
Yu-Fang Cho, Miami University of Ohio
J. Randolph Cox, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota
Michael Epp, Trent University
Keith Gandal
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, University of California, Santa Cruz
Frank Tobias Higbie, University of California, Los Angeles
Amanda Hinnant, University of Missouri School of Journalism
Berkley Hudson, University of Missouri School of Journalism
Coleman Hutchison, University of Texas at Austin
Chuck Johanningsmeier, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Deidre Johnson, West Chester University
Will Kaufman, University of Central Lancashire
Alisha R. Knight, Washington College (Maryland)
Victoria Lamont, University of Waterloo
Graham Law, Waseda University, Tokyo
Jean M. Lutes, Villanova University
Lori Merish, Georgetown University
Norimasa Morita, Waseda University
Cary Nelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kathryn J. Oberdeck, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Elizabeth Renker, The Ohio State University
Amy Rodgers, Kalamazoo College
Matthew Rubery, University of Leeds
Susan Scheckel, Stony Brook University
Lydia Cushman Schurman, Northern Virginia Community College
David Seed, Liverpool University
Mark Simpson, University of Alberta
Erin Smith, University of Texas at Dallas
David M. Stewart, National Central University, Taiwan
John Kuo Wei Tchen, New York University
Christopher Wilson, Boston College
Mary Saracino Zboray, University of Pittsburgh
Ronald J. Zboray, University of Pittsburgh

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture

Volume Six: US Popular Print Culture 1860-1920

Edited by Christine Bold

Oxford History of Popular Print Culture

Reviews and Awards

"Joad Raymond has performed the Herculean task of editing the first volume of The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture with intelligence and imagination." --Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

"Scholarly, informative, and exceedingly valuable to anyone with an interest in the topics celebrated by the descriptive sub-title of this magazine." --Dime Novel Round-Up

"A valuable contribution to book history that is diverse in disciplinary backgrounds, theoretical assumptions, and methodological approaches...The thorough bibliographies for each chapter and the list of archival resources additionally mark this volume as particularly useful in enabling continued inquiry into the materials and practices of the popular." --American Periodicals