Free Download Jesse W. Schwartz, "New Directions in Print Culture Studies: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture"
English | ISBN: 1501359738 | 2022 | 320 pages | PDF | 13 MB
New Directions in Print Culture Studies features new methods and approaches to cultural and literary history that draw on periodicals, print culture, and material culture, thus revising and rewriting what we think we know about the aesthetic, cultural, and social history of transnational America.

The unifying questions posed and answered in this book are methodological: How can we make material, archival objects meaningful? How can we engage and contest dominant conceptions of aesthetic, historical, and literary periods? How can we present archival material in ways that make it accessible to other scholars and students? What theoretical commitments does a focus on material objects entail?
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