The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture


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Planned nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present.













The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice


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This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns—both practical and theoretical—related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of 'national' book history.




Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe


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Despite the fact that, if only by number, small and peripheral cities played an important role in fifteenth and sixteenth-century European print culture, book history has mainly been dominated by monographs on individual big book centres. Through a number of specific case studies, which deploy a variety of methods and a wide range of sources, this volume seeks to enhance our understanding of printing and the book trade in small and peripheral European cities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and to emphasize the necessity of new research for the study of print culture in such cities.




The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture


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Thirty specially written essays, by scholars from a wide range of disciplines, explore a cornucopia of US popular print materials from 1860 to 1920, the period when mass culture exploded into the everyday lives of large swathes of the population.




Power in Print


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With reference to printing and publishing in Bengal in the time-period; a study.




Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China


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Despite the importance of books and the written word in Chinese society, the history of the book in China is a topic that has been little explored. This pioneering volume of essays, written by historians, art historians, and literary scholars, introduces the major issues in the social and cultural history of the book in late imperial China. Informed by many insights from the rich literature on the history of the Western book, these essays investigate the relationship between the manuscript and print culture; the emergence of urban and rural publishing centers; the expanding audience for books; the development of niche markets and specialized publishing of fiction, drama, non-Han texts, and genealogies; and more.




US Popular Print Culture to 1860


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"Devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present."--Provided by publisher.