The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Vol. 6: US Popular Print Culture, 1860-1920

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2012
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716 pp.
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Oxford University Press
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New York, NY
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9780199234066
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Contents: pt. I FORMS AND TECHNOLOGIES OF CULTURAL PRODUCTION 1. The Changing Face of Publishing / Mary Saracino Zboray -- 2. Story Papers / 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 / Berkley Hudson -- 7. American Advertising: A Poem for Every Product / 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 / Amy Rodgers -- 10. Internationalizing the Popular Print Marketplace / Norimasa Morita pt. II POPULAR GENRES 11. Labour and Popular Print Culture / Frank Tobias Higbie -- 12. American Woman's Suffrage Print Culture / Victoria Lamont -- 13. Religion and Popular Print Culture / Erin A. Smith -- 14. Juvenile Publications / Deidre Johnson -- 15. Westerns / Christine Bold.; Note continued: 16. Science Fiction / David Seed -- 17. The Humour Industry / Michael H. Epp -- 18. Sensationalism / David M. Stewart -- 19. Popular Poetry in Circulation / Elizabeth Renker pt. III SITES OF DIFFERENCE AND POWER -- 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. The American Civil War / Will Kaufman.; Note continued: 27. Rough Justice: Crime, Corruption, and Urban Governance / Christopher P. Wilson -- 28. Jacob Riis and Popularizing the Photography of Class Trauma / Keith Gandal -- 29. Understanding Readers of Fiction in American Periodicals, 1880 -- 1914 / Charles Johanningsmeier pt. IV APPENDICES 1. Additional Topics and Approaches -- Advice Manuals and Self-Help Books -- Detective Fiction -- Ethnomethodology of Popular Print Culture -- 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. Archival Resources -- General Popular Print Culture Resources -- Advertising -- African American -- Asian American -- Civil War -- Detective Fiction -- Dime and Nickel Novels, Reprint Libraries, Early Pulps, Early Comics -- Early Motion Pictures -- Ephemera -- Humour and Cartoons. -- Juvenile Publications -- Mexican American -- Native American -- Periodicals (Newspapers, Magazines, Story Papers) -- Popular Poetry -- Postcards and Photographs -- Publishers' Records -- Religion -- Science Fiction -- Westerns and Wild West Shows -- Women's Print.; Selective chronology 1860-1920