OXFORD HISTORY OF POPULAR PRINT CULTURE | RON AND MARY ZBORAY

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, ed. Gary Kelly
VOL. 5, US POPULAR PRINT CULTURE TO 1860, ed. Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2018)

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Volume 5 of The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture: US Popular Print Culture to 1860 provides scholarly, yet accessible essays covering a broad range of research on the production, dissemination, and, particularly, reception of popular print in the United States from its colonial beginnings to 1860. It summons the contributions of forty scholars who specialize in various aspects of early American popular print culture, and who come from a wide range of fields including American studies, communication, comparative literature, cultural studies, English, journalism, history, library science, music, and women’s studies. Contributors use diverse scholarly approaches and interpretive strategies to present new information and perspectives that promise to advance the study of American popular print culture, and at the same time to introduce the field to both students and general readers.

This volume distinguishes itself by broadly defining and contextualizing print within popular culture expressions such as advertisements, the lyceum, sheet music, photography, and lithography, and by emphasizing diverse readerships—including African Americans, Native Americans, women, the working classes, and immigrants—as a way to understand the “popular.” In representing resistance to, subversion of, contention with, and reaction to print, this volume considers the meanings of “printedness” in relation to alternative writing and publishing traditions and coexisting manuscript and oral literary cultures. Because print for colonial and, later, U.S. consumption was produced on both sides of the Atlantic and throughout the Western hemisphere, the transatlantic and intercontinental strains of authorship, publishing, and dissemination are highlighted. The volume will offer unprecedented scope and coverage.