Publications
University of Wisconsin Press Publication Series "Print Culture History in Modern America".
Currently limited to volumes originating in the Center's biennial conference, the series fosters research and writing on the mediating roles that print has played in American culture since 1876. Its scope encompasses studies of newspapers, books, periodicals, advertising, and ephemera. Special attention is given to groups whose gender, race, class, creed, occupation, ethnicity, and sexual orientation (among other factors) have historically placed them on the periphery of power but who have used print sources as one of the few means of expression available to them.
James P. Danky is on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication and has appointments in the School of Library and Information Studies and Department of Afro-American Studies. Christine Pawley is professor of library and information studies and Director of the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Adam R. Nelson is associate professor of educational policy studies and history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Titles
Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America, edited by Adam R. Nelson and John L. Rudolph, UW Press, May 2010. ISBN 978-0-299-23614-4
Vividly revealing the multiple layers on which print has been produced, consumed, regulated, and contested for the purpose of education since the mid-nineteenth century, the historical case studies in Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America deploy a view of education that extends far beyond the confines of traditional classrooms. The nine essays examine “how print educates” in settings as diverse as depression-era work camps, religious training, and broadcast television—all the while revealing the enduring tensions that exist among the controlling interests of print producers and consumers. This volume exposes what counts as education in American society and the many contexts in which education and print intersect.
For more details about the book, or to order online from the University of Wisconsin Press, see: http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4522.htm
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Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America, edited by Charles L. Cohen and Paul S. Boyer, UW Press, May 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0-299-22570-4
Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America explores how a variety of print media—religious tracts, newsletters, cartoons, pamphlets, self-help books, mass-market paperbacks, and editions of the Bible from the King James Version to contemporary “Bible-zines”—have shaped and been shaped by experiences of faith since the Civil War. Edited by Charles L. Cohen and Paul S. Boyer, whose comprehensive historical essays provide a broad overview to the topic, this book is the first on the history of religious print culture in modern America and a well-timed entry into the increasingly prominent contemporary debate over the role of religion in American public life.
For more details about the book, or to order online from the University of Wisconsin Press, see:
http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/4402.htm
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Bookwomen: Creating an Empire in Children's Book Publishing, 1919-1939, , UW Press, July 2006. ISBN 0-299-21794-9
The most comprehensive account of the women who, as librarians, editors, and founders of the Horn Book, shaped the modern children's book industry between 1919 and 1939. The lives of Anne Carroll Moore, Alice Jordan, Louise Seaman Bechtel, May Massee, Bertha Mahony Miller, and Elinor Whitney Field open up for readers the world of female professionalization. What emerges is a vivid illustration of some of the cultural debates of the time, including concerns about "good reading" for children and about women's negotiations between domesticity and participation in the paid labor force and the costs and payoffs of professional life.
For more details about the book, or to order online from the University of Wisconsin Press, see: http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2166.htm.
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To view a digital copy visit the UW-Madison Libraries Web site at http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu/books/print-culture/bookwomen.shtml
Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited by and , foreword by UW Press, April 2006.
ISBN 0-299-21784-1
Women readers, editors, librarians, authors, journalists, booksellers, and others are the subjects in this stimulating collection on modern print culture. The essays feature women like Marie Mason Potts, editor of Smoke Signal, a mid-twentieth century periodical of the Federated Indians of California; Lois Waisbrooker, publisher of books and journals on female sexuality and women's rights in the decades after the Civil War; and Elizabeth Jordan, author of two novels and editor of Harper's Bazaar from 1900 to 1913. The volume presents a complex and engaging picture of print culture and of the forces that affected women's lives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
For more details about the book, or to order online from the University of Wisconsin Press, see: http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2166.htm.
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To view a digital copy visit the UW-Madison Libraries Web site at http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu/books/print-culture/women-in-print.shtml
Defining Print Culture for Youth The Cultural Work of Children's Literature, edited by and , Greenwood Press, Libraries Unlimited, 2003. ISBN: 0-313-32177-9
This volume features a selection of ten papers compiled from the Center's second national conference, accompanied by a detailed introduction. Presented by scholars from diverse backgrounds, the essays center on the emerging, interdisciplinary field of print culture. They examine children's literature and related print materials from a cultural perspective and discuss the influence of ideological, political, and material factors on the reader. Moreover, the authors join a cultural debate over the nature of childhood in specific historical periods.
Available from: Libraries Unlimited P.O. Box 6926 Portsmouth, NH 03802-6926
http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/GM2177.aspx
Apostles of Culture: the Public Librarian and American Society, 1876-1920, UW Press, March 2003. ISBN 0-299-18114-6
One of the most widely cited cultural histories of libraries and those who inhabit them. The new introduction by sets the context for the debates around Garrison's book over the last three decades.
For more details about the book, or to order online from the University of Wisconsin Press, see: http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2166.htm.
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Libraries as Agencies of Culture, edited by and , UW Press, January 2003.
ISBN 0-299-18304-1
Originally a special issue of American Studies. This investigation of the library in the life of the reader as well as a place in the life of its users represents a significant development in advancing our cultural understanding of print and structure.
For more details about the book, or to order online from the University of Wisconsin Press, see: http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2166.htm.
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Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age, Paul Boyer, UW Press, April 2002. Paperback; ISBN 0-299-17584-7
The first volume to appear in the series. The second edition of this classic work was suggested by Boyer, the second Chair of the Advisory Board, who wrote two new chapters to bring it up to the present.
For more details about the book, or to order online from the University of Wisconsin Press, see: http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2166.htm.
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Print Culture in a Diverse America, edited by and , University of Illinois Press, 1998. ISBN 0-252-02398-6; Hardback; ISBN 0-252-06699-5
In the modern era there arose a prolific and vibrant print culture -- books, newspapers, and magazines issued by and for diverse, often marginalized, groups. This long-overdue collection offers a unique foray into the multicultural world of reading and readers in the United States. Interdisciplinary essays examine the many ways print culture functions within different groups; they link gender, class, and ethnicity to the uses and goals of a wide variety of publications; and they explore the role print materials play in constructing certain historical events; such as the Titanic disaster. The volume includes exemplary scholarship in history, library studies, literature, journalism, and mass communications.
"Provocative and useful, this volume stands as a counterpart to a wide range of material on print culture in American history." -- , editor of Last Rights: Revisiting Four Theories of the Press and author of Violence Against the Press: Policing the Public Sphere in U.S. History
Available from University of Illinois Press, P.O. Box 4856, Hampden Post Office, Baltimore MD 21211
www.press.uillinois.edu/f98/danky.html