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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461107603321

Titolo

An extensive republic : print, culture, and society in the new nation, 1790-1840 / / edited by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : Published in association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

0-8078-9568-7

1-4696-2719-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (720 p.)

Collana

History of the Book in America ; ; Volume 2

Disciplina

381/.45002097309034

Soggetti

Book industries and trade - United States - History - 19th century

Publishers and publishing - United States - History - 19th century

Books and reading - United States - History - 19th century

Printing - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Editors' and Authors' Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: An Extensive Republic""; ""Section I. A Republic in Print: Ideologies and Institutions""; ""Introduction""; ""CHAPTER 1 The Revolution's Legacy for the History of the Book""; ""CHAPTER 2 The Book Trades in the New Nation ""; ""Part 1. The Rise of Book Publishing""; ""Part 2. Case Study: Harper & Brothers""; ""Part 3. Case Study: Urban Printing""; ""Part 4. "Printing is something every village has in it": Rural Printing and Publishing""; ""Part 5. "Of the paper cap and inky apron": Journeymen Printers""

""Section II. Spreading the Word in Print""""Introduction""; ""CHATPER 3 Government and Law ""; ""Part 1. Print and Politics""; ""Part 2. Have Pen, Will Travel: The Times and Life of John Norvell, Political Journalist""; ""Part 3. Copyright""; ""Part 4. Expanding the Realm of Communications""; ""CHAPTER 4 Benevolent Books: Printing, Religion, and Reform""; ""CHAPTER 5 The Learned World""; ""Section III. Educating



the Citizenry""; ""Introduction""; ""CHAPTER 6 Libraries and Schools""; ""Part 1. Libraries""; ""Part 2. Schools""; ""Part 3. Schoolbooks""; ""Part 4. Colleges and Print Culture""

""Part 5. Female Academies and Seminaries and Print Culture""""Section IV. Gendering Authorship and Audiences""; ""Introduction""; ""CHAPTER 7 Men Writing in the Early Republic""; ""CHAPTER 8 Women Writing in the Early Republic""; ""Section V. Genres of Print""; ""Introduction""; ""CHAPTER 9 Periodical Press: Newspapers, Magazines, and Reviews""; ""Part 1. Newspapers and Periodicals""; ""Part 2. Harriet Newell's Story: Women, the Evangelical Press, and the Foreign Mission Movement""; ""Part 3. Making Friends at the Southern Literary Messenger""; ""CHAPTER 10 Word and Image""

""Part 1. Transformations in Pictorial Printing""""Part 2. Novels""; ""Part 3. Travel Books""; ""Part 4. Biography""; ""Section VI. New Reading and Writing Publics""; ""Introduction""; ""CHAPTER 11 Making Communities in Print""; ""Part 1. Readers and Writers of German""; ""Part 2. Give Me a Sign: African Americans, Print, and Practice""; ""Part 3. Literacy and Colonization: The Case of the Cherokees""; ""CHAPTER 12 Reading for an Extensive Republic""; ""Bibliography and the AAS Catalog: A Note on Tables""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""

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