Publications
Call for manuscripts: University of Wisconsin Press Publication Series "Print Culture History in Modern America" fosters research and writing on the mediating role that print has played in American culture since 1876. Its scope encompasses studies of newspapers, books of all kinds, periodicals, advertising, and ephemera. Special attention is given to groups whose gender, race, class, creed, occupation, ethnicity or 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.
For the Print Culture History In Modern America series, James Danky, Christine Pawley, and Wayne Wiegand (who continues in his role as co-editor), are interested in well-crafted, easily accessible narratives, 250-350 pages in length. They should be based on substantial research into all the relevant primary sources. The editors welcome themes national in scope as well as topics of regional and local significance addressing community formation and replication facilitated by the culture of print.
The first volume to appear in the series was Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age. 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.
Paperback, April 2002, ISBN 0-299-17584-7
For more details about the book, or to order by web 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 , was 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.
January 2003, ISBN 0-299-18304-1
For more details about the book, or to order by web from the University of Wisconsin Press, see: http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2166.htm.
To order by phone, fax, or mail, contact the Chicago Distribution Center.
Phone: 800-621-2736 or 773-702-7000
Fax: 773-702-7212
Mail: CDC, 11030 S. Langley Ave., Chicago, IL 60628-3892
Apostles of Culture: the Public Librarian and American Society, 1876-1920 is 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.
March 2003, ISBN 0-299-18114-6
For more details about the book, or to order by web from the University of Wisconsin Press, see: http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2166.htm.
To order by phone, fax, or mail, contact the Chicago Distribution Center.
Phone: 800-621-2736 or 773-702-7000
Fax: 773-702-7212
Mail: CDC, 11030 S. Langley Ave., Chicago, IL 60628-3892
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
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
Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited by and , foreword by .
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.
April 2006, ISBN 0-299-21784-1
For more details about the book, or to order by web from the University of Wisconsin Press, see: http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2166.htm.
To order by phone, fax, or mail, contact the Chicago Distribution Center.
Phone: 800-621-2736 or 773-702-7000
Fax: 773-702-7212
Mail: CDC, 11030 S. Langley Ave., Chicago, IL 60628-3892
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
Bookwomen: Creating an Empire in Children's Book Publishing, 1919-1939, by , is 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.
July 2006, ISBN 0-299-21794-9
For more details about the book, or to order by web from the University of Wisconsin Press, see: http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2166.htm.
To order by phone, fax, or mail, contact the Chicago Distribution Center.
Phone: 800-621-2736 or 773-702-7000
Fax: 773-702-7212
Mail: CDC, 11030 S. Langley Ave., Chicago, IL 60628-3892
To view a digital copy visit the UW-Madison Libraries Web site at http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu/books/print-culture/bookwomen.shtml