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A History of the Book in America : Volume 2: an Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840.

Gross, Robert A.

A History of the Book in America : Volume 2: an Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (720 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Editors' and Authors' Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An Extensive Republic -- Section I. A Republic in Print: Ideologies and Institutions -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The Revolution's Legacy for the History of the Book -- CHAPTER 2 The Book Trades in the New Nation -- Part 1. The Rise of Book Publishing -- Part 2. Case Study: Harper & -- Brothers -- Part 3. Case Study: Urban Printing -- Part 4. "Printing is something every village has in it": Rural Printing and Publishing -- Part 5. "Of the paper cap and inky apron": Journeymen Printers -- Section II. Spreading the Word in Print -- Introduction -- CHATPER 3 Government and Law -- Part 1. Print and Politics -- Part 2. Have Pen, Will Travel: The Times and Life of John Norvell, Political Journalist -- Part 3. Copyright -- Part 4. Expanding the Realm of Communications -- CHAPTER 4 Benevolent Books: Printing, Religion, and Reform -- CHAPTER 5 The Learned World -- Section III. Educating the Citizenry -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 6 Libraries and Schools -- Part 1. Libraries -- Part 2. Schools -- Part 3. Schoolbooks -- Part 4. Colleges and Print Culture -- Part 5. Female Academies and Seminaries and Print Culture -- Section IV. Gendering Authorship and Audiences -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 7 Men Writing in the Early Republic -- CHAPTER 8 Women Writing in the Early Republic -- Section V. Genres of Print -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 9 Periodical Press: Newspapers, Magazines, and Reviews -- Part 1. Newspapers and Periodicals -- Part 2. Harriet Newell's Story: Women, the Evangelical Press, and the Foreign Mission Movement -- Part 3. Making Friends at the Southern Literary Messenger -- CHAPTER 10 Word and Image -- Part 1. Transformations in Pictorial Printing -- Part 2. Novels -- Part 3. Travel Books -- Part 4. Biography -- Section VI. New Reading and Writing Publics. Introduction -- CHAPTER 11 Making Communities in Print -- Part 1. Readers and Writers of German -- Part 2. Give Me a Sign: African Americans, Print, and Practice -- Part 3. Literacy and Colonization: The Case of the Cherokees -- CHAPTER 12 Reading for an Extensive Republic -- Bibliography and the AAS Catalog: A Note on Tables -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

9781469627199


Book industries and trade-United States-History-19th century.
Publishers and publishing-United States-History-19th century.
Books and reading-United States-History-19th century.
Printing-Social aspects-United States-History-19th century.


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