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James J. Connolly - Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis - 9781442650626 - V9781442650626
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Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis

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Description for Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis Hardback. Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis focuses attention to how the residents of smaller cities, provincial districts, rural settings, and colonial outposts have produced, disseminated, and read print materials. Editor(s): Connolly, James J.; Collier, Patrick; Felsenstein, Frank; Hall, Kenneth R.; Hall, Robert. Series: Studies in Book & Print Culture. Num Pages: 464 pages, 45, 1 map. BIC Classification: DSB; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .

Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history, library studies, and communications, Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis rejects the idea that print culture necessarily spreads outwards from capitals and cosmopolitan cities and focuses attention to how the residents of smaller cities, provincial districts, rural settings, and colonial outposts have produced, disseminated, and read print materials.

Too often print media has been represented as an engine of metropolitan modernity. Rather than being the passive recipients of print culture generated in city centres, the inhabitants of provinces and colonies have acted independently, as jobbing printers in provincial Britain, black newspaper proprietors in ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Studies in Book & Print Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442650626
SKU
V9781442650626
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About James J. Connolly
James J. Connolly is the George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at Ball State University. Patrick Collier is a professor in the Department of English at Ball State University. Frank Felsenstein is the Reed D. Voran Honors Distinguished Professor in Humanities in the Department of English at Ball State University. Kenneth R. ... Read more

Reviews for Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis
‘A discerning look into provincial reading experiences that will offer an extended view of the world for scholars of sociocultural and print history…Highly recommended.’
R.L. Wadham
Choice vol 54:03:2016

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