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Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis (Studies in Book & Print Culture) (Studies in Book and Print Culture) - Hardcover
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.
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.
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A discerning look into provincial reading experiences that will offer an extended view of the world for scholars of sociocultural and print history Highly recommended.
- R.L. Wadham - Choice vol 54:03:2016"'A discerning look into provincial reading experiences that will offer an extended view of the world for scholars of sociocultural and print history...Highly recommended.'
- R.L. Wadham - Choice vol 54:03:2016James J. Connolly is the George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at Ball State University. Patrick Collier is a professor in the Department of English at Ball State University. Frank Felsenstein is the Reed D. Voran Honors Distinguished Professor in Humanities in the Department of English at Ball State University. Kenneth R. Hall is a professor in the Department of History at Ball State University. Robert G. Hall is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Ball State University.
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- PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1442650621
- ISBN 13 9781442650626
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages464
- EditorJames J. Connolly, Patrick Collier, Frank Felsenstein, Kenneth R. Hall, Robert Hall
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