Printed Matters

Malcolm Gee teaches Art History at the University of Northumbria. He has published widely on the history of the French art market in the early twentieth century. He is currently working on a study of artistic relations between France and Germany during the period of the Weimar Republic. Tim Kirk teaches history at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of Nazism and the Working Class in Austria (1996) and co-editor, with Dermot Cavanagh, of Subversion and Scurrility. Popular Discourse in Europe from 1500 to the Present (2000).

• Introduction, Malcolm Gee and Tim Kirk; Rouen and its printers from the 15th to the 19th century, Jean-Dominique Mellot; Lyons’ printers and booksellers from the 15th to the 19th century, Dominique Varry; Gavarni’s Parisian population reproduced, David W.S. Gray; The literary dangers of the city: policing 'immoral books' in Berlin, 1850-1880, Sarah L. Leonard; Readers, browsers, strangers, spectators: narrative forms and metropolitan encounters in 20th-century Berlin, Peter Fritzsche; Commercial spies and cultural invaders: the French press, Pénétration Pacifique and xenophobic nationalism in the shadow of war, Fae Brauer; Neutrality under threat: freedom, use and ’abuse’ of the press in Switzerland, 1914-19, Debbie Lewer; The ’cultured’ city: the art press in Berlin and Paris in the early 20th century, Malcolm Gee; Text and image in the construction of an urban readership: allied propaganda in France during the Second World War, Valerie Holman; Structures of the typescript, Catherine Viollet

'Ashgate is rapidly becoming a major publisher in the field of book history... This collection of essays is as enjoyable as it is wide-ranging. The editors have done a good job in assembling this unique book... Printed matters deserves to be read - and enjoyed - widely, not least because it reminds us through some delightful case-studies, of the power of print as, primarily, a medium of urban culture.' Journal of the Printing Historical Society