New Directions in Print Culture Studies - Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture

New Directions in Print Culture Studies features new methods and approaches to cultural and literary history that draw on periodicals, print culture, and material culture, thus revising and rewriting what we think we know about the aesthetic, cultural, and social history of transnational America. The unifying questions posed and answered in this book are methodological: How can we make material, archival objects meaningful? How can we engage and contest dominant conceptions of aesthetic, historical, and literary periods? How can we present archival material in ways that make it accessible to other scholars and students? What theoretical commitments does a focus on material objects entail? New Directions in Print Culture Studies brings together leading scholars to address the methodological, historical, and theoretical commitments that emerge from studying how periodicals, books, images, and ideas circulated from the 19th century to the present. Reaching beyond national boundaries, the essays in this book focus on the different materials and archives we can use to rewrite literary history in ways that highlight not a canon of "major" literary works, but instead the networks, dialogues, and tensions that define print cultures in various moments and movements.>

Product details

• Authors: Jesse W Schwartz, Daniel Worden
• Assisted by: Jesse W. Schwartz (Editor), Daniel Worden (Editor), Worden Daniel (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781501393020
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-9302-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Cultural Studies, English, North America, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Historiography, Material Culture, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, North America (USA and Canada), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Printing and reprographic technologies, Printing & Reprographic Technology