The Oxford History Of Popular Print Culture

Planned nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present.

From the early sixteenth century through to the later seventeenth, governments, institutions, and individuals learned to use cheaply-produced printed texts to inform, entertain, and persuade. This authoritative collection of essays examines the developing role of popular printed texts in the first two centuries of print in Britain and Ireland.

"Devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present."--Provided by publisher.

Planned nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present.

Thirty specially written essays, by scholars from a wide range of disciplines, explore a cornucopia of US popular print materials from 1860 to 1920, the period when mass culture exploded into the everyday lives of large swathes of the population.

This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns—both practical and theoretical—related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of 'national' book history.