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Libraries Amid Protest - Books, Organizing, And Global Activism

by Sherrin Frances

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 Explores how protest libraries - labour-intensive, temporary installations in parks and city squares, poorly protected from the weather, at odds with security forces - continue to arise. In telling the stories of these inspiring spaces through interviews and other research, Sherrin Frances confronts the complex history of American public libraries.
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Teaching The History Of The Book

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 Presenting a variety of methods for teaching book history both as its own subject and as an approach to other material, this volume describes lessons, courses, and programs centered on the latest and best ways of teaching undergraduate and graduate students.
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Handwriting In Early America - A Media History

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 As digital communication has become dominant, commentators have declared that handwriting is a thing of the past, a relic of an earlier age. This volume of original essays makes it clear that anxiety around handwriting has existed for centuries and explores writing practices from a variety of interdisciplinary fields.
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Reading The Renaissance - Black Women'S Literary Reception And Taste In Chicago, 1932-1953

by Mary I. Unger

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From Boys To Men - The Boy Problem And The Childhood Of Famous Americans Series

by Gregory M. Pfitzer

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 Based on deep archival research into the publication history of the â€˜Childhood of Famous Americansâ€™ book series published between 1932 and 1958, From Boys to Men sheds light on current controversies on childrenâ€™s books and presentations of gender diversity.
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From Boys To Men - The Boy Problem And The Childhood Of Famous Americans Series

by Gregory M. Pfitzer

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 Based on deep archival research into the publication history of the â€˜Childhood of Famous Americansâ€™ book series published between 1932 and 1958, From Boys to Men sheds light on current controversies on childrenâ€™s books and presentations of gender diversity.
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Everyday Reading - Middlebrow Magazines And Book Publishing In Post-Independence India

by Aakriti Mandhwani

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 Utilizing a wealth of previously unexamined print culture materials, as well as paying careful attention to the production of commercial publishing companies and the reception of ordinary reading practices, this book offers fresh perspectives into book history, South Asian literary studies, and South Asian gender studies.
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Fame Is Not Just For The Fellas - Female Renown And The Childhood Of Famous Americans Series

by Gregory M. Pfitzer

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 Between 1932 and 1958, thousands of children read volumes in the book series Childhood of Famous Americans. These biographies celebrated the national virtues and achievements of famous women. Gregory Pfitzer examines the editorial and production choices of the publisher and considers the influence of the series on readers and American culture.
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Faraway Women And The "Atlantic Monthly

by Cathryn Halverson

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 Examines gender and power as it charts an archival journey connecting the least remembered writers and readers of the early twentieth century with one of its most renowned literary figures, Gertrude Stein.
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Gems Of Art On Paper - Illustrated American Fiction And Poetry, 1785-1885

by Georgia Brady Barnhill

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 Argues that while scholars have largely overlooked the efforts of early American illustrators, the works of art that they produced impacted readers' understandings of the texts they encountered, and greatly enriched the nation's cultural life.
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Jim Crow Networks - African American Periodical Cultures

by Eurie Dahn

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 Scholars have paid little attention to the periodicals that African Americans read and discussed regularly during the Jim Crow era. This study considers how these publications, and their authors, readers, advertisers, and editors worked as part of larger networks of activists and thinkers to advance racial uplift and resist racism.
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Writing Across The Color Line - U.S. Print Culture And The Rise Of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920

by Lucas A. Dietrich

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 Explores how Native American, African American, Latinx, Asian American, and Irish American writers at the turn of the twentieth century relied on self-caricature, tricksterism, and the careful control of authorial personae to influence white audiences.
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The Intimacy Of Paper In Early And Nineteenth-Century American Literature

by Jonathan Senchyne

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 Making a bold case for the importance of printing and paper technology in the study of early American literature, Jonathan Senchyne presents archival evidence of the effects of this very visible process on American writers, such as Anne Bradstreet, Herman Melville, Lydia Sigourney, William Wells Brown, and other lesser-known figures.
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Gems Of Art On Paper - Illustrated American Fiction And Poetry, 1785-1885

by Georgia Brady Barnhill

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 Argues that while scholars have largely overlooked the efforts of early American illustrators, the works of art that they produced impacted readers' understandings of the texts they encountered, and greatly enriched the nation's cultural life.
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Jim Crow Networks - African American Periodical Cultures

by Eurie Dahn

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 Scholars have paid little attention to the periodicals that African Americans read and discussed regularly during the Jim Crow era. This study considers how these publications, and their authors, readers, advertisers, and editors worked as part of larger networks of activists and thinkers to advance racial uplift and resist racism.
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Libraries Amid Protest - Books, Organizing, And Global Activism

by Sherrin Frances

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 Explores how protest libraries - labour-intensive, temporary installations in parks and city squares, poorly protected from the weather, at odds with security forces - continue to arise. In telling the stories of these inspiring spaces through interviews and other research, Sherrin Frances confronts the complex history of American public libraries.
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Writing Across The Color Line - U.S. Print Culture And The Rise Of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920

by Lucas A. Dietrich

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 Explores how Native American, African American, Latinx, Asian American, and Irish American writers at the turn of the twentieth century relied on self-caricature, tricksterism, and the careful control of authorial personae to influence white audiences.
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Placing Papers - The American Literary Archives Market

by Amy Hildreth Chen

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 The sale of authors' papers to archives has become big news. Amy Hildreth Chen offers the history of how this multimillion dollar business developed from the mid-twentieth century onward and considers what impact authors, literary agents, curators, archivists, and others have had on this burgeoning economy.
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Reading Books - Essays On The Material Text And Literature In America

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 These essays examine the ways in which the material qualities of books profoundly affect how they have been read and understood. Included are chapters on the reception of Dante's works in America, the binding styles of Ticknor and Fields and the packaging of literature for American high schools.
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Books For Idle Hours - Nineteenth-Century Publishing And The Rise Of Summer Reading

by Donna Harrington-Lueker

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 Drawing on publishing records, book reviews, readers' diaries, and popular novels of the period, Donna Harrington-Lueker explores the beginning of summer reading and the backlash against it. Books for Idle Hours sheds new light on an ongoing seasonal publishing tradition.
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Made Under Pressure - Literary Translation In The Soviet Union, 1960-1991

by Natalia Kamovnikova

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 During the Cold War, determined translators and publishers based in the Soviet Union worked together to increase the number of foreign literary texts available in Russian, despite government restrictions. Based on extensive interviews with literary translators, Made Under Pressure offers an insider's look at Soviet censorship and the role translators played in promoting foreign authors.
1960s Gay Pulp Fiction - The Misplaced Heritage

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Taking Books To The World - American Publishers And The Cultural Cold War

by Amanda Laugesen

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 Franklin Publications was started in 1953 as a form of cultural diplomacy. Until it folded in the 1970s, Franklin translated, printed, and distributed American books around the world. Amanda Laugesen tells the story of this purposeful enterprise, demonstrating the mix of goodwill and political drive behind its efforts to create modern book industries in developing countries.
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Reading America - Citizenship, Democracy, And Cold War Literature

by Kristin L. Matthews

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 How literature and reading practices reflected cold war paranoia
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