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

by Jesse W. Schwartz (Editor), Daniel Worden (Editor)

Overview

New Directions in Print Culture Studiesfeatures 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 Studiesbrings 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

ISBN-13:	9781501393020
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/25/2024
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

Jesse W. Schwartz is Associate Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, USA.

Daniel Worden is Associate Professor of Art at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture
(Jesse W. Schwartz, LaGuardia Community College, USA, and Daniel Worden, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

I. Print Culture's Past and Presents
1. Story-Paper Origins in the US: The Unknown Public and The New York Ledger
(Ayendy Bonifacio, University of Toledo, USA)
2. “And They Think A Strike Is War”: John Reed, Metropolitan Magazine, and Radical Seriality Against the Editors
(Jesse W. Schwartz, LaGuardia Community College, USA)
3. Laying the Type of Revolution: Historicizing US Feminism in and through Print Culture
(Agatha Beins, Texas Woman's University, USA)
4. The Instant Classic in the Age of Digital Print Culture: Claude McKay's Romance in Marseille
(Gary Edward Holcomb, Ohio University, USA)
5. The Real Productivity: Creative Refusal and Cultish Tendencies in Online Print Jourbanal Communities
(Michelle Chihara, Whittier College, USA)

II. Archives, Exhibits, Images, and Sounds of Print Culture
6. Hold Still: "Redeemed" and Coming Undone
(Monica Huerta, Princeton University, USA)
7. Engraving Class: Gender, Race, and the Pictorial Politics of the 1877 General Strike
(Justin Rogers-Cooper, LaGuardia Community College, USA)
8. Sounding: Black Print Culture at the Edges of the Black Atlantic
(Kristin Moriah, Queen's University, Canada)
9. “A Traveling Exhibition”: Magazines and the Display and Circulation of Art in the
Americas
(Lori Cole, New York University, USA)
10. Comics in the Archive: Approaches to the April 1956 Newsstand
(Daniel Worden, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, and Rebekah Walker)
11. Icons and Archives: James Baldwin and the Practice of Celebrity
(Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Harvard University, USA)

III. Print Culture Studies in Practice
12. Reimagining Literary History and Why It Matters Now
(Kelley Kreitz, Pace University, USA)
13. Anthologizing Alternatives: June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara's Publishing Pedagogies
(Danica Savonick, SUNY Cortland, USA)
14. Hybrid Scholarly Publishing Models in a Digital Age
(Krystyna Michael, The CUNY Graduate Center, USA, Jojo Karlin, The CUNY Graduate Center, USA, and Matthew K. Gold, The CUNY Graduate Center, USA)


Index

Editorial Reviews

New Directions in Print Culture Studies delivers on the promise to make its reader see the field anew. This volume's illuminating case studies are deeply researched and theoretically sophisticated, intellectually honest and, at moments, delightfully weird. A wonderful overview for seasoned and curious scholars alike.” —Jordan Alexander Stein, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Fordham University, USA

“This rich collection both argues for and amply demonstrates the centrality of print culture to scholarship and pedagogy in the 21st century. In this volume, Schwartz and Worden give us an edgily political, unabashedly nerdy, and theoretically capacious conception of what print culture studies is and can be. The engaging and provocative essays found therein take up objects of inquiry from cartes de visites to bullet jourbanals, from story papers to multimodal websites. They consider capitalism and counterpublics, comics and collections, sound and medium, celebrity and canonicity, multilingualism and hemispheric studies, pedagogy and activism. The clarity and precision of the chapters make this collection classroom-ready. These provocations will also serve as inspirations and entry points for scholars in the field hungry for just such an invitation to connect the print artifacts of the past in all their formal and material specificity to the urgent matters of the present. These “new directions” are awfully fun to explore.” —Catherine Keyser, Professor of English, University of South Carolina, USA

“An indispensable guide, New Directions in Print Culture Studies gathers 16 case studies that feature inventive enactments of and critical reflections on the methodologies that have enabled this radically interdisciplinary mode of analysis to transform scholarly production across the humanities and social sciences.” —Donald E. Pease, Ted & Helen Geisel Professor of the Humanities, Dartmouth College, USA

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