Title
- Studies In Print Culture And The History Of The Book
Attribution
Sarah WadsworthPublication Details
BookUniversity of Massachusetts Press2006Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z473 .W33 2006 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
A vital feature of American culture in the nineteenth century was the growing awareness that the literary marketplace consisted not of a single, unified, relatively homogeneous reading public but rather of many disparate, overlapping reading communities differentiated by interests, class, and level of education as well as by gender and stage of life. “In the Company of Books” contends that specialized editorial and marketing tactics, in concert with the narrative strategies of authors and the reading practices of the book-buying public, transformed the literary landscape, leading to new roles for the book in American culture, the innovation of literary genres, and new relationships between books and readers. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Publishers and publishing — United States — History — 19th century
- Booksellers and bookselling — United States — History — 19th century
- Books and reading — United States — History — 19th century
- Children’s literature — Publishing — United States — History — 19th century
- Children — Books and reading — United States — History — 19th century
- Authors and readers — United States — History — 19th century
- American literature — 19th century — History and criticism
- Popular culture — United States — History — 19th century
- Market segmentation — United States — History
Contents
- Prologue : following the reader
- Wonder books
- Stories of their lives
- Boy’s life
- Seaside and fireside
- Innocence abroad
- A blue and gold mystique
- Epilogue : the margins of the marketplace
ISBN
- 155849541x
- 9781558495418
- 1558495401
- 9781558495401
- 155849541x
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