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Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840-1920 (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
Gregory M. Pfitzer
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Description for Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840-1920 (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
Paperback. Explores how the emergence of a new literary marketplace in the mid-nineteenth century affected the study of history in America. In an effort to illuminate the cultural conditions for this boom, this book focuses on the business of book making and book promotion. It analyzes the subscription sales techniques of book agents. Series: Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; GTB; HBTB; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 671.
Prior to the mid-nineteenth century, most Americans ""heard"" rather than ""read"" national history. They absorbed lessons from the past more readily by attending Patriots' Day orations and anniversary commemorations than by reading expensive, multivolume works of patrician historians. By the 1840s, however, innovations in publishing led to the marketing of inexpensive, mass-produced ""popular"" histories that had a profound influence on historical literacy and learning in the United States. In this book, Gregory M. Pfitzer charts the rise and fall of this genre, demonstrating how and why it was born, flourished, and then became unpopular over time.Pfitzer begins by exploring how ... Read more
Prior to the mid-nineteenth century, most Americans ""heard"" rather than ""read"" national history. They absorbed lessons from the past more readily by attending Patriots' Day orations and anniversary commemorations than by reading expensive, multivolume works of patrician historians. By the 1840s, however, innovations in publishing led to the marketing of inexpensive, mass-produced ""popular"" histories that had a profound influence on historical literacy and learning in the United States. In this book, Gregory M. Pfitzer charts the rise and fall of this genre, demonstrating how and why it was born, flourished, and then became unpopular over time.Pfitzer begins by exploring how ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558496255
SKU
V9781558496255
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About Gregory M. Pfitzer
Professor of American studies at Skidmore College, GREGORY M. PFITZER is author of Picturing the Past: Illustrated Histories and the American Imagination, 1840-1900.
Reviews for Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840-1920 (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
This is a compelling work of intellectual and cultural history, one that uses the form of individual extended biographies of several major popular historians of the nineteenth century to recover a book world that we rarely examine closely.... Pfitzer is an excellent cultural historian. - Alice Fahs, author of The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and the ... Read more