Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis / James J. Connolly, Patrick Collier, Frank Felsenstein, Kenneth R. Hall, Robert Hall.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Print Culture Histories beyond the Metropolis: An Introduction -- PART ONE. Circulation -- 1. Non-Metropolitan Printing and Business in Britain and Ireland between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 2. “I have hitherto been entirely upon the borrowing hand”: The Acquisition and Circulation of Books in Early Eighteenth- Century Dissenting Academies -- 3. The Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth- Century Evolution of Indian Print Culture and Knowledge Networks in Calcutta and Madras -- 4. Beyond the Market and the City: The Informal Dissemination of Reading Material during the American Civil War -- 5. Cosmopolitan Ideals, Local Loyalties, and Print Culture: The Career of George Chandler Bragdon in Upstate New York -- 6. What Travels? The Movement of Movements; or, Ephemeral Bibelots from Paris to Lansing, with Love -- 7. Circum-Atlantic Print Circuits and Internationalism from the Peripheries in the Interwar Era -- PART TWO. Place -- 8. At the Dawn of the Information Age: Reading and the Working Classes in Ashton-under-Lyne, 1830–1850 -- 9. Uneasy Occupancy: Sarah Grand, The Beth Book, and a Colonial Reader -- 10. Alger, Fosdick, and Stratemeyer in the Heartland: Crossover Reading in Muncie, Indiana, 1891–1902 -- 11. Romance in the Province: Reading German Novels in Middletown, USA -- 12. Print Culture and Cosmopolitan Trends in 1890s Muncie, Indiana -- 13. Zones of Connection: Common Reading in a Regional Australian Library -- 14. Organized Print: Clara Steen and Institutional Sites of Reading and Writing in the American Midwest, 1895–1920 -- Secondary Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index

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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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