Print culture histories beyond the metropolis

"Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history, library studies, and communications, Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis rejects the idea that print culture necessarily spreads outwards from capitals and cosmopolitan cities and focuses attention to how the residents of sma...

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Körperschaften: Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis Conference (VerfasserIn), Ball State University (VeranstalterIn), University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
Weitere Verfasser: Connolly, James J. (HerausgeberIn), Collier, Patrick (HerausgeberIn), Felsenstein, Frank (HerausgeberIn), Hall, Kenneth R. (HerausgeberIn), Hall, Robert G. (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Toronto, Buffalo, London University of Toronto Press 2016
Schriftenreihe:Studies in book and print culture
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Zusammenfassung:"Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history, library studies, and communications, Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis rejects the idea that print culture necessarily spreads outwards from capitals and cosmopolitan cities and focuses attention to how the residents of smaller cities, provincial districts, rural settings, and colonial outposts have produced, disseminated, and read print materials. Too often print media has been represented as an engine of metropolitan modernity. Rather than being the passive recipients of print culture generated in city centres, the inhabitants of provinces and colonies have acted independently, as jobbing printers in provincial Britain, black newspaper proprietors in the West Indies, and library patrons in "Middletown," Indiana, to mention a few examples. This important new book gives us a sophisticated account of how printed materials circulated, a more precise sense of their impact, and a fuller of understanding of how local contexts shaped reading experiences."--
Beschreibung:"The essays collected in this book were first written for the Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis Conference, held at Ball State University in March 2013." (Acknowledgments, ungezählte Seite ix)
"Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history, library studies, and communications, Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis rejects the idea that print culture necessarily spreads outwards from capitals and cosmopolitan cities and focuses attention to how the residents of smaller cities, provincial districts, rural settings, and colonial outposts have produced, disseminated, and read print materials. Too often print media has been represented as an engine of metropolitan modernity. Rather than being the passive recipients of print culture generated in city centres, the inhabitants of provinces and colonies have acted independently, as jobbing printers in provincial Britain, black newspaper proprietors in the West Indies, and library patrons in "Middletown," Indiana, to mention a few examples. This important new book gives us a sophisticated account of how printed materials circulated, a more precise sense of their impact, and a fuller of understanding of how local contexts shaped reading experiences."
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:viii, 437 Seiten
Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
24 cm
ISBN:9781442650626
978-1-4426-5062-6
1442650621
1-4426-5062-1