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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 The 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 five traces print's role in the lives of a wide variety of people who settled—or who were displaced or forcibly transported by settlers—in middle North America, from colonial beginnings through the mid-nineteenth-century proliferation of industrially-produced imprints until 1860, when the Civil War disrupted longstanding patterns. While the volume takes account of emerging technological and economic developments in production and distribution, it nevertheless through its focus on readers emphasizes surprising continuities over the longue durée of centuries.Forty-one contributors from across disciplines consider either literary practices of diverse groups or specific genres of popular print passing through people's hands, which included advertisements, almanacs, captivity narratives, ephemera, lithographs, magazines, newspapers, nonfiction, novels, pamphlets, poetry, and slave narratives. In articulating imprint use and genre among groups ranging from free and enslaved blacks to native peoples to women of all races, contributors provide an unusually well-rounded view of print's everyday meanings. Because people often derived those meanings in relation to scribal production and oral communication, the diaries and letters they penned and transcriptions of words they spoke provide much of the book's evidence. The volume ultimately reorients the study of popular print culture in the early US from locally produced printed texts aimed at national readerships to the practices of readers who engaged the broad universe of imprints — not always American—authored-available to them.
Ronald J. Zboray is Professor of Communication and Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh. Mary Saracino Zboray is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh.The editors have published extensively on antebellum print culture as well as on women's politicization in that era, and they have recently taken up, through numerous essays, print culture during the American Civil War.
General Editor's IntroductionRonald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray: IntroductionPart I. Foundations1: Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray: Print Production and the Book Trades2: David O. Dowling: Authorship3: Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray: Readers4: Jean Ferguson Carr and Stephen L. Carr: Literacy and Education5: Wayne A. Wiegand: Social, Circulating, and Public Libraries6: Kristen Doyle Highland: Bookstores and other Retailing7: Wendy A. Woloson: Itinerant and Informal Distribution8: Richard B. Kielbowicz: Literature in the MailPart II. Preindustrial Era9: T. J. Tomlin: Almanacs10: Seth Perry: Bibles, Sermons, and other Religious Publications11: Billy J. Stratton: Captivity Narratives12: William Huntting Howell: Ephemera13: Jennifer Mylander: Imports14: Jared Gardner: Magazines to 182015: Meredith Neuman: Manuscript Culture and Print16: Carol Sue Humphrey: Newspapers to 182017: Sandra M. Gustafson: Oral Genres and Print18: Michelle Orihel: PamphletsPart III. Mass Market Emergence19: Carl Robert Keyes: Advertising20: Cynthia Patterson: Illustrated Periodicals21: Marcy J. Dinius: Lithography, Photography, and Print22: Tom F. Wright: Lyceums, Public Lectures, and Print23: Susan Belasco: Magazines from 1820 to 186024: Daniel Cavicchi: Music25: Erika J. Pribanic-Smith: Newspapers from 1820 to 186026: Barbara Hochman: Novels27: Matthew Short and Demian Katz: Story Papers and Pamphlet Novels28: Michael C. Cohen: Poetry29: Eileen Ka-May Cheng: Popular Nonfiction30: Joseph Rezek: Transatlantic Currents in the Literary Book TradePart IV. Segmentation and Diversity31: Eric Gardner: Black Engagement with Print32: Nicole N. Aljoe: Black Slave Narratives33: James Emmett Ryan: Catholic Publishing34: Sarah Wadsworth: Children's Literature35: Phillip H. Round: Native Imprints and Readers36: Paul Gutjahr: The Protestant Evangelical Press37: Teresa A. Goddu: Reform38: J. Brenton Stewart: Southern Imprints and Readers39: Montse Feu: Spanish-Language Publications and Readers40: Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray: Women Writers and Readers
US Popular Print Culture to 1860, a remarkable collection of forty essays, demonstrates the breadth of the field of print culture studies in the United States and points toward its future potential for literary scholars, historians, and other scholars of the early and antebellum periods.
