Faraway Women and the Atlantic Monthly

Cathryn Halverson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Winner of the 2020 Thomas J. Lyon Award from the Western Literature Association In the first decades of the twentieth century, famed Atlantic Monthly ... Lees meer

Public in Name Only

Brenda Mitchell-Powell

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Library History Round Table Reads Selection, March 2024 Alexandria Historical Society Special Merit Award, 2023 When Alexandria, Virginia's first publ... Lees meer

Commercializing Childhood

Paul B Ringel

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Long before activists raised concerns about the dangers of commercials airing during Saturday morning cartoons, America's young people emerged as a gr... Lees meer

Placing Papers

Amy Hildreth Chen

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• The sale of authors' papers to archives has become big news, with collections from James Baldwin and Arthur Miller fetching record-breaking sums in re... Lees meer

Made Under Pressure

Natalia Kamovnikova

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• During the Cold War, determined translators and publishers based in the Soviet Union worked together to increase the number of foreign literary texts ... Lees meer

Book Anatomy

Amy Gore

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• From the marginalia of their readers to the social and cultural means of their production, books bear the imprint of our humanity. Embodying the marks... Lees meer

Accomplished in All Departments of Art

James O'Gorman

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• This book reconstructs the career of Hammatt Billings, one of the most prolific and versatile artists of the nineteenth century. Skilled in a wide ran... Lees meer

Book Anatomy

Amy Gore

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• From the marginalia of their readers to the social and cultural means of their production, books bear the imprint of our humanity. Embodying the marks... Lees meer

Getting at the Author

Barbara Hochman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Throughout the nineteenth century, American readers and reviewers assumed that a book revealed its author's individuality, that the experience of read... Lees meer

Books for Idle Hours

Donna Harrington-Lueker

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print cu... Lees meer

The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature

Katie McGettigan

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• During the antebellum period, British publishers increasingly brought out their own authorized and unauthorized editions of American literary works as... Lees meer

Gems of Art on Paper

Georgia Brady Barnhill

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Winner of the 2022 Ewell L. Newman Book Award from the American Historical Print Collectors Society In the immediate aftermath of the Revolutionary Wa... Lees meer

The Art of Prestige

Amy Clements, Amy Root Clements

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• In the American book trade, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and its inimitable logo featuring a borzoi wolfhound have come to signify the pinnacle of prestigio... Lees meer

Making the News

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Much recent writing on print culture has focused on the social and political implications of the transition from "elite" to "mass" culture in the 1800... Lees meer

Organizing Women

Christine Pawley

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• In the first decades of the twentieth century, print-centered organizations spread rapidly across the United States, providing more women than ever be... Lees meer

"The World's Best Books"

Jay Satterfield

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• In October 1930, Macy's department store in New York City used the inexpensive book series "The Modern Library of the World's Best Books" as a loss-le... Lees meer

The Labor of Literature

Jane D. Griffin

• Hardcover | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Studies amateur and noncommercial forms of literary production in Chile that originated in response to authoritarian state politics and have gained mo... Lees meer

Libraries amid Protest

Sherrin Frances

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• In September 2011, Occupy Wall Street activists took over New York's Zuccotti Park. Within a matter of weeks, the encampment had become a tiny model o... Lees meer

Books for Idle Hours

Donna Harrington-Lueker

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print cu... Lees meer

Made Under Pressure

Natalia Kamovnikova

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• During the Cold War, determined translators and publishers based in the Soviet Union worked together to increase the number of foreign literary texts ... Lees meer

Illuminating Letters

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• What do we read when we read a text? The author's words, of course, but is that all? The prevailing publishing ethic has insisted that typography--the... Lees meer

Books, Maps, and Politics

Carl Ostrowski

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Delving into the origins and development of the Library of Congress, this volume ranges from the first attempt to establish a national legislative lib... Lees meer

Taking Books to the World

Amanda Laugesen

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Franklin Publications, or Franklin Book Programs, was started in 1952 as a form of cultural diplomacy. Until it folded in the 1970s, Franklin translat... Lees meer

Reading America

Kristin L Matthews

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• During the Cold War, the editor of Time magazine declared, "A good citizen is a good reader." As postwar euphoria faded, a wide variety of Americans ... Lees meer