The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
18 December 2019
Summary
The true scale of paper Production in America from 1690 through the end of the nineteenth century was staggering, with a range of parties participating in different ways, from farmers growing flax to textile workers weaving cloth and from housewives saving rags to peddlers collecting them. Making a bold case for the importance of printing and paper technology in the study of early American literature, Jonathan Senchyne presents archival evidence of the effects of this very visible process on …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781625344748 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1625344740 |
| Author: | Jonathan Senchyne |
| Publisher: | University of Massachusetts Press |
| Imprint: | University of Massachusetts Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 18 December 2019 |
| Weight: | 335g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 154mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book |
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Critics Review
“Senchyne shows a commitment to rendering visible those too often invisible–be it women using and collecting rags, women working in paper mills, or African Americans frozen in the stereotypes propagated by print media. In turn, his excellent book allows us another way to understand how women (writers) were bound and unbound in paper.”–Women’s Studies
“The Intimacy of Paper succeeds brilliantly not only as a scholarly contribution for specialists of early and nineteenth-century American culture, but also as an innovative methodological intervention in American Studies more broadly.”–Anglia
“This is an important and engaging work of scholarship … [Senchyne] has succeeded in centering female authors, people of color, individuals involved in the rag trade, and other previously marginalized actors within the literary history of American paper and papermaking.”–Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
“The Intimacy of Paper contributes to literary, print culture, book history, and bibliographic studies on several fronts … This monograph is a valuable academic resource and teaching text.”–American Literary History
“Senchyne writes paper back into the story of American literary history with implications for book history and literary criticism alike. As he demonstrates, the intersections between print and paper, between ostensible foreground and background, are surprisingly generative, with lasting effects on how we read (and hold and look at) printed works.”–Susan M. Ryan, author of The Moral Economies of American Authorship: Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth–Century Literary Marketplace
“Senchyne finds new interpretative possibilities in the main ingredient of books and paper, not just a substrate for writing and printing but a form of expression in its own right.”–John Bidwell, author of American Paper Mills, 1690-1832: A Directory of the Paper Trade with Notes on Products, Watermarks, Distribution Methods, and Manufacturing Techniques
About The Author
Jonathan Senchyne
Jonathan Senchyne is assistant professor in the Information School and director of the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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