scholarly journals Of Time and the City: The Doyles and London Print Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 242-262
Author(s):  
Jonathan Cranfield
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Printing Technology ◽  
Tectonic Plates ◽  
Irish Catholics ◽  
The City

This article examines Arthur Conan Doyle's status as a ‘London’ writer. It places his own experiences of the city within the same historical frame as that of his father, his uncles, and his grandfather. The Doyles had spent decades working in London print culture before Conan Doyle had even been born, and it is helpful to understand his early struggles to make his name as part of this longer literary-historical narrative. The London Doyles were able to establish their names as artists, illustrators, and writers before the tectonic plates of printing technology and public taste shifted beneath them. The article also focuses on the Doyles' status as a family of immigrant Irish Catholics who found that their faith, as well as their politics, made them perpetual outsiders.

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.

Martineau, the Press and Jacksonian America

2020 ◽  
pp. 50-94
Author(s):  
Iain Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Free Press ◽  
Regional Variations ◽  
The Press ◽  
The City ◽  
North And South

Chapter Two considers Martineau’s American visit, the ways in which the three books she wrote out of it depict the role of education and a free press in the formation of American democracy, and the critical reception they received on both sides of the Atlantic. By contrast with the dichotomous readings of a nation divided between North and South along the lines of slave-ownership that have been the norm in studies of her visit, this chapter argues that the American books offer a more nuanced analysis of a society whose regional variations are most fully understood in terms of the extent to which they either have developed or constrained the development of a free press and a print culture that facilitates the evolution and implementation of liberal ideals. It pays particular attention to Martineau’s representation of the western states and, above all, Cincinnati, which she portrays as an exemplar of economic and moral stadial progress and as a counter to Boston, for her the ‘city of cant’ and an unexpected bastion of resistance to liberal change. Finally, the chapter shows how Martineau returned home committed to finding ways in which her work could participate in and contribute to America’s continuing advance and, in particular, focused upon prospective roles for herself in supporting the interwoven causes of abolitionism and of women’s ability to become agents of social progress.

Responding to the Restoration

2018 ◽  
pp. 102-122
Author(s):  
Scott C. Esplin
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Church Leadership ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Loss Of Control ◽  
Historical Accuracy ◽  
Community Of Christ ◽  
Building Program ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

The restoration of Nauvoo, Illinois, by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) generated competing visions for the city. While the Latter-day Saints used the site to attract religious interest, their sibling faith, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Community of Christ), responded with a competing building program of their own. This chapter traces the way the Reorganized Church moved from a defensive posture to rebrand its message in Nauvoo around historical accuracy and the internal debate within Church leadership that this shift created. It also examines the cooperation between the faiths that emerged as they took divergent paths. Finally, it explores the response by the local Nauvoo community to the loss of control over their town’s historical narrative.

“The Paper Old and Faded and Falling to Pieces”: Absalom, Absalom! and the Pulping of History

2017 ◽  
pp. 177-191
Author(s):  
Brooks E. Hefner
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
Adventure Fiction

This chapter examines how Faulkner's dramatization of the historical endeavor reflects the print culture conventions of his era. It argues that Absalom's “fluid and flexible” relationship to history amounts to a “pulping” of the historical record, “self-consciously destroying, recycling, and repurposing” it in ways gleaned from the “popular literary production” of the 1920s and 1930s. The so-called shudder pulps, with their emphasis on terror and the occult; “hero pulps” and other modes of popular adventure fiction; Black Mask-school hard-boiled crime fiction; Yellow Peril narratives and other tales depicting “racialized threat[s] to sexual purity” and the domestic sphere—the novel employs all of these pulp genres to shape and sensationalize the Sutpen saga and its central figures, in what amounts to a lowbrow version of the “emplotment” process that Hayden V. White finds at work in all historical narrative.

Building a New Horizon?

2020 ◽  
pp. 287-312
Author(s):  
Ian Worthington
Keyword(s):  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Building Program ◽  
The City ◽  
The Temple

Chapter 14 takes another break from the historical narrative to discuss the major Roman building projects in Athens, which some scholars argue brought about a Romanization of the city and led to its becoming a provincial one. The argument is made that despite Roman buildings, Athens remained a Greek city. The chapter discusses the Roman Agora; the Temple of Roma and Augustus in front of the Parthenon; Agrippa’s Odeum; the lesser public works under the post Julio-Claudian emperors; and Hadrian’s great building program (including the completion of the monumental Temple to Olympian Zeus (Olympieion), a library, an aqueduct), second only to that of Augustus, with a nod to the next chapter to explain why he did what he did. The funerary monument to Philopappus, not at the behest of an emperor but still part of a building program because of Roman style in its architecture, is also discussed. Finally, the chapter examines the transplanting of some temples from the Attic countryside during this period and why this occurred, and the reuse of earlier (especially Classical) statues dedicated to Romans, as part of a plan of the Athenians to keep their heritage alive and not have statues removed to Rome.

Information System for Determining Earthquake and Tsunami Evacuation Paths in Bengkulu City Based on Android

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 5180-5185
Author(s):  
Yulia Darmi ◽  
Busono Soerowirdjo ◽  
Ery Prasetyo Wibowo ◽  
Ernastuti
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Eurasian Plate ◽  
Tectonic Plates ◽  
Tsunami Disaster ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
Australian Plate ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Evacuation Route ◽  
The City

Facility of directions to the evacuation places in the city of Bengkulu is very minimal, so that people are very difficult to find an efficient route to the evacuation places. The problem is how to determine the evacuation route/gathering point. Indonesia is prone to earthquakes because logically, the Indonesian archipelago is at the confluence of three tectonic plates: the Eurasian plate, the Australian plate and the Pacific plate. In the event of an earthquake and tsunami disaster, if disaster preparedness is not prepared, it will cause damage to buildings, offices and can result in fatalities such as the events in Nangro Aceh Darussalam. Therefore, we need a system that can help overcome this disaster management. The system that can be made is the Information System for Determining Earthquake and Tsunami Evacuation Paths in the city of Bengkulu Using Android. By using Android, it will be easier for people to imitate an evacuation route or place during an earthquake and tsunami.

Immigrants in the City: New York's Irish and German Catholics

1972 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay P. Dolan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Black American ◽  
German Immigrants ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Irish Catholics ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The City

In the 1860s Walt Whitman described New York as a “city of spires and masts” with “the flags of all nations … duly lowered at sunset.” To this celebrator or urban life New York was a “city of the world! For all races are here; all the lands of the earth make contributions here.” The cosmopolitan character of New York was especially reflected in the city's Roman Catholic community. In the words of John Hughes, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York at mid-century, his “people were composed of representatives from almost all nations.” There were Italian and French Catholics, German and Irish Catholics as well as white and black American-born Catholics. And if one looked long enough, he would come across Catholic merchants from Spain and Catholic chefs from Switzerland. But within this polyglot community the two most significant ethnic groups in ante-bellum New York were the Irish and German immigrants.

Anti-Catholicism and Race in Post-Civil War San Francisco

2009 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Paddison
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Civil War ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
Irish Catholics ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
The City

In San Francisco during the 1870s, conflicts over public schools, immigration, and the bounds of citizenship exacerbated long-simmering tensions between Protestants and Catholics. A surging anti-Catholic movement in the city——never before studied by scholars——marked Catholics as racially and religiously inferior. While promising to unite, anti-Catholicism actually exposed splits within Protestant San Francisco as it became utilized by opposing sides in debates over the place of racially marked groups in church and society. Considered neither fully white nor fully Christian, many Irish Catholics in turn demonized Chinese immigrants to establish their own credentials as patriotic white Christians. By the early 1880s the rising anti-Chinese movement had eclipsed tensions between Catholics and Protestants, creating new coalitions around Christian whiteness rather than broad-based interracial Protestantism.

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