Review: Print Culture in a Diverse America. The History of Communication Series by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand, eds.

1988 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-114
Author(s):  
Ellen M. Gil-Gomez
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
History Of

Mass Production: Impossible London’s Criminal Subjects

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Geier
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mass Events

Considers mass readership and the ‘tastes’ it produces. Maps the history of criminals and execution spectacles, particularly as addressed by the London ‘public’ voices of Defoe and Dickens. Connects these mass events to the new mass print culture and circulation forms, such as the penny dreadfuls and their Newgate novel precursor. This shows the development of the public’s ‘taste for blood’, anxieties at an encroaching nonhumanity, and an infatuation with the inhuman from Jack Sheppard to Sweeney Todd and Dracula.

The History of Books and Print Culture in Japan: The State of the Discipline

Book History ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 270-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew T. Kamei-Dyche
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
The State ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Books

PRINT CULTURE AND ITS PUBLICS: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF BOOKSTORES IN TEHRAN, 1900–1950

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afshin Marashi
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Political Empowerment ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

AbstractThis article investigates the evolution of print culture and commerce in Tehran during the first half of the 20th century. The first section examines technological changes that facilitated the commercialization of texts and then details the history of early print entrepreneurs in the Tehran bazaar. The second section examines the expansion of the book trade between the 1920s and 1940s, tracing the emergence of modern bookstores in a rapidly changing Tehran. I argue that patterns of change in print commerce between 1900 and 1950 contributed to the emergence of mass culture by midcentury. This new mass culture involved the social and political empowerment of a diversity of new reading publics in the city, and enabled the emergence of new forms of popular politics.

scholarly journals HathiTrust as a Data Source for Researching Early Nineteenth-Century Library Collections

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-24
Author(s):  
Julia Bauder
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Digital Representations ◽  
Automated Method ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
Google Books ◽  
History Of ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Library Collections

An intriguing new opportunity for research into the nineteenth-century history of print culture, libraries, and local communities is performing full-text analyses on the corpus of books held by a specific library or group of libraries. Creating corpora using books that are known to have been owned by a given library at a given point in time is potentially feasible because digitized records of the books in several hundred nineteenth-century library collections are available in the form of scanned book catalogs: a book or pamphlet listing all of the books available in a particular library. However, there are two potential problems with using those book catalogs to create corpora. First, it is not clear whether most or all of the books that were in these collections have been digitized. Second, the prospect of identifying the digital representations of the books listed in the catalogs is daunting, given the diversity of cataloging practices at the time. This article will report on progress towards developing an automated method to match entries in early nineteenth-century book catalogs with digitized versions of those books, and will also provide estimates of the fractions of the library holdings that have been digitized and made available in the Google Books/HathiTrust corpus.

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