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Printers, Printing Press and the Emergence of  Print Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Butler, Pierce.  The Origin of Printing in Europe<\/em>.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cavallo, Guglielmo, and Roger Chartier, eds.  A History of Reading in the West<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curran, Mark.  \u201cBeyond the Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France.\u201d  Historical Journal<\/em> 56 (March 2013): 89-112.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chartier, Roger, ed.  The Culture of Print: Power and the Uses of Print in Early Modern Europe<\/em>.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chartier, Roger.  The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries<\/em>.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chartier, Roger.  The Author\u2019s Hand and the Printer\u2019s Mind<\/em>.  Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dane, Joseph A. What is a Book? The Study of Early Printed Books<\/em>.  South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darnton, Robert.  The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History<\/em>.  New York: Basic Books, 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darnton, Robert.  The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France<\/em>.  New York: Norton, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diebert, Ronald L.  Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communication in World Order Transformation<\/em>.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe.  <\/em>New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.  The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe.  <\/em>New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eisenstein, Elizabeth L, and Adrian Johns. “How Revolutionary Was the Print Revolution?: An AHR Forum.” American Historical Review<\/em> 107 (February 2002): 84-128.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.  Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of Ending<\/em>.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ezell, Margaret J.M.  Social Authorship and the Advent of Print<\/em>.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Febvre, Lucien, and Henri-Jean Martin.  The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800<\/em>.  London: N.L.B., 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gee, Malcolm, and Tim Kirk, eds.  Printed Matters : Printing, Publishing and Urban Culture in Europe in the Modern Period<\/em>.  Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ginzburg, Carlo. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller.  <\/em>New York: Penguin Books, 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grafton, Anthony.  Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe<\/em>.  Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hindman, Sandra, ed.  Printing the Written Word: The Social History of Books, circa 1450-1520<\/em>.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johns, Adrian.  The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making.  <\/em>Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lause, Mark A.  Some Degree of Power: From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in the Preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778-1815.  <\/em>Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Man, John.  Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words.<\/em>  New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McKitterick, David.  Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830<\/em>.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moran, James.  Printing Presses: History and Development from the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times<\/em>.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rawson, David Andrew.  “Guardians of their Own Liberty’:  A Social History of Printing and Reading in Virginia, 1750-1820.”  PhD dissertation, College of William and Mary, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams, Raymond.  The Long Revolution.  <\/em>New York: Columbia University Press, 1961.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrightson, Nick.  \u201cThose With Great Abilities Have Not Always the Best Information: How Franklin\u2019s Trans-Atlantic Book-Trade and Scientific Networks Interacted, ca. 1730-1757.\u201d Early American Studies<\/em> 8:1 (Winter 2010): 94-119.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zaret, David.  Origins of a Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England<\/em>.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studies of Literacy and Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abel, Trudy.  “A Man of Letters, a Man of Business: Edward Stratemeyer and the Adolescent Reader, 1890-1930.”  PhD dissertation, Rutgers University, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albertine, Susan, ed.  A Living of Words: American Women in Print Culture<\/em>. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aliaga-Buchenau, Ana-Isabel.  The Dangerous Potential of Reading: Readers and the Negotiation of Power in Nineteenth Century Narratives<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Altick, Richard D.  The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900<\/em>.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amory, Hugh. Bibliography and the Book Trades:  Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England.  <\/em>Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson, Electa E. \u201cLiterary Transformations: Civilized Reading and Reform in the Progressive Era West.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armstrong, Erica R.  “A Mental and Moral Feast:  Reading, Writing, and Sentimentality in Black Philadelphia.” Journal of Women’s History<\/em> 16:1 (2004): 78-102.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armstrong, Nancy.  Desire and Domestic Fiction.<\/em>  New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aronson, Amy Beth.  Taking Liberties: Early American Women’s Magazines and Their Readers<\/em>.  Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barton Schweiger, Beth.  The Literate South: Reading Before Emancipation<\/em>.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Battan, Jesse F.  “You Cannot Fix the Scarlet Letter on My Breast!”: Women Reading, Writing, and Reshaping the Sexual Culture of Victorian America.”  Journal of Social History<\/em> 37:3 (Spring 2004): 601-624.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baym, Nina.  Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America<\/em>.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bibbs, Maria L. \u201cThe African American Literacy Myth: Literacy\u2019s Ethical Objective during the Progressive Era, 1890\u20131919.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Birkerts, Sven.  The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in the Electronic Age<\/em>.  New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blair, Amy Lynn.  \u201cReading Up:  Middle Class Readers and Narratives of Success from the 1890s to the 1920s.\u201d  PhD dissertation, Cornell University, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blair, Amy.  Reading Up: Middle Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States<\/em>.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boyarin, Jonathan, ed.  The Ethnography of Reading<\/em>.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bourdreau, George.  “Highly Valuable and Extensively Useful: Community and Readership Among the 18th Century Middling Sort.”  Pennsylvania History<\/em> 63:3 (Summer 1996): 302-329.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brayman Hackel, Heidi, and Catherine E. Kelly, eds. Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500\u20131800<\/em>.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brazeau, Alicia.  Circulating Literacy: Writing Instruction in American Periodicals, 1880-1910<\/em>.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brodhead, Richard C.  Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown, Matthew P.  The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England<\/em>.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown, Richard D.  Knowledge is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Casper, Scott E., et al., eds., A History of the Book in America, <\/em>vol. 3: The Industrial Book, 1840\u20131880.<\/em> Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christian, Shawn Anthony.  The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of the New Negro Reader<\/em>. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark, Beverly Lyon.  Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children\u2019s Literature in America<\/em>.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cohen, Patricia Cline.  A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America<\/em>.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cohoon, Lorinda B. Serialized Citizenships: Periodicals, Books, and American Boys, 1840-1910<\/em>.  Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornelius, Janet Duitsman.  “When I Can Read my Title Clear”: Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the Antebellum South<\/em>.  Columbia: University of South Carollina Press, 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crain, Patricia.  The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from the New England Primer to the Scarlet Letter<\/em>.  Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2000.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crain, Patricia. \u201cPostures and Places: The Child Reader in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Popular Print.\u201d English Literary History<\/em> 80 (Summer 2013): 343\u2013372.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davidson, Cathy N.  Reading in America: Literature and Social History<\/em>.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davidson, Cathy N.  “The Novel as Subversive Activity: Women Reading, Women Writing” in Beyond the American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism<\/em>, Alfred F. Young, ed.  Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Docherty, Linda J.  “Women as Readers: Visual Interpretations.”  Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society<\/em> 107:2 (1998): 335-388.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Felsenstein, Frank, and James J. Connolly.  What Middletown Read: Print Culture in a Small American City<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ferguson, Robert A.  Reading the Early Republic<\/em>.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flint, Kate.  The Woman Reader, 1837-1914<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flynn, Elizabeth A., and Patrocino P. Schweichart, eds.  Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts<\/em>.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foster, Frances Smith.  \u201cA Narrative of the Interesting Origins and (Somewhat) Surprising Developments of African-American Print Culture.\u201d  American Literary History<\/em> 17 (Winter 2005): 714\u201340.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gallegos, Bernardo P.  Literacy, Education, and Society in New Mexico, 1693-1821. <\/em>Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garfield, Michelle N.  \u201cLiterary Societies: The Work of Self-Improvement and Racial Uplift,\u201d in Black Women\u2019s Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds<\/em>, ed. Kristin Waters and Carol B. Conaway, 113\u201328.  Burlington: University of Vermont Press, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garrison, Dee.  \u201cImmoral Fiction in the Late Victorian Library.\u201d  American Quarterly<\/em> 28:1 (Spring 1976): 71-89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilmore, William J.  \u201cElementary Literacy on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution, 160-1830.\u201d  Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society<\/em> 98 (1982): 87-178.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilmore, William. Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780-1835.  <\/em>Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glazener, Nancy.  Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution<\/em>.  Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gordon, Edward E., and Elaine H. Gordon.  Literacy in America: Historic Journey and Contemporary Solutions<\/em>.  Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graff, Harvey.  The Literacy Myth: Literacy and Social Structure in the Nineteenth Century City<\/em>.  New York: Academic Press, 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graff, Harvey.  The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society.  <\/em>Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gross, Robert A.  “Reading Cultures, Reading Books.”  Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society<\/em> 106:1 (1996): 59-78.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gunther Brown, Candy.  The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hackel, Heidi Brayman, and Catherine E. Kelly, eds. Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500\u20131800.<\/em> Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harker, Jaime.  America the Middlebrow: Women\u2019s Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars<\/em>. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hayes, Kevin J.  A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf.  <\/em>Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hobbs, Catherine, ed.  Nineteenth-Century American Women Learn to Write<\/em>.  Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hunter, Gordon.  What America Reads: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack, Belinda.  The Woman Reader<\/em>.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson, Leon. \u201cThe Talking Book and the Talking Book Historian:  African American Cultures of Print \u2013 the State of the Discipline.\u201d  Book History<\/em> 13 (2010):  292-293.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johns, Adrian. The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jones, Sandra E. \u201cHanding on the Creative Spark: Black Women\u2019s Reading Practices, a Speculative History.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joyce, William L, et al, eds.  Printing and Society in Early America<\/em>.  Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juhasz, Suzanne.  Reading from the Heart: Women, Literature, and the Search for True Love<\/em>.  New York: Viking, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaestle, Carl F., ed., Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading Since 1880.  <\/em>New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.*<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karl, Alissa G. \u201c Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Cultures and Consumer Capitalism, 1915-1939.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Washington, 2005.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelley, Mary. Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America.  <\/em>New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelly, Mary.  “Reading Women\/Women Reading: The Making of Learned Women in Antebellum America.”  Journal of American History<\/em> 83 (September 1996): 401-424.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelley, Mary. \u201c\u2018A More Glorious Revolution\u2019: Women\u2019s Antebellum Reading Circles and the Pursuit of Public Influence.\u201d The New England Quarterly<\/em> 76, no. 2 (2003): 163\u2013196.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keller, Yvonne.  \u201cWas It Right To Love Her Brother\u2019s Wife So Passionately?: Lesbian Pulp Novels and US Lesbian Identity, 1950-1965.\u201d American Quarterly<\/em> 57:2 (June 2005): 385-410.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelley, Mary. \u201c\u2018The Need of Their Genius\u2019: Women\u2019s Reading and Writing Practices in Early America.\u201d Journal of the Early Republic  28<\/em> (Spring 2008): 1\u201322.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kett, Joseph F.  The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: From Self-Improvement to Adult Education in America, 1750-1990.  <\/em>Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knight, Carrie N.  \u201cReading Themselves Sick: Consumption and Women\u2019s Reading in the Early Republic, 1780-1860.\u201d  Book History<\/em> 24:1 (Spring 2021): 37-57.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kunzel, Regina.  “Pulp Fictions and Problem Girls: Reading and Rewriting Single Pregnancy in the Postwar United States.”  American Historical Review<\/em> 100 (December 1995): 1465-1487.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LeFavour, Cree.  “Jane Eyre Fever”: Deciphering the Astonishing Popular Success of Charlotte Bronte in Antebellum America.\u201d  Book History<\/em> 7 (2004): 113-141.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leonard, Thomas C.  \u201cNews at the Hearth: A Drama of Reading in Nineteenth-Century America.\u201d  Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society<\/em> 102 (1993): 379-401.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lindell, Lisa R. \u201c\u2018So Long as I Can Read\u2019: Farm Women\u2019s Reading Experiences in Depression-Era South Dakota.\u201d Agricultural History<\/em> 83 (Fall 2009): 503\u2013527.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linkon, Sherry Lee.  “Reading Lind Mania: Print Culture and the Construction of Nineteenth-Century Audiences.” Book History <\/em>1 (1998): 94-106. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lockridge, Kenneth A.  Literacy in Colonial New England<\/em>.  New York: Norton, 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luey, Beth.  Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge.  <\/em>Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lundberg, David, and Henry F. May.  \u201cThe Enlightened Reader in America.\u201d  American Quarterly<\/em> 28 (Summer 1976): 262-271.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lyons, Martyn.   A History of Reading and Writing in the Western World<\/em>.  New York: Red Globe Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McDowell, Kathleen.  \u201cToward a History Children as Readers, 1890-1930.\u201d  Book History <\/em>12:1 (2009): 240-165.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McHenry, Elizabeth, and Shirley Brice Heath.  “The Literate and the Literary: African-Americans as Writers and Readers, 1830-1940.”  Written Communication<\/em> 11 (1994): 419-444.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McHenry, Elizabeth.  Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African-American Literary Societies<\/em>.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Machor, James L.  “Fiction and Informed Reading in Early Nineteenth Century America.”  Nineteenth Century Literature<\/em> 47:3 (December 1992): 3320-348.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Machor, James L., ed.  Readers in History: Nineteenth Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response<\/em>.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Main, Gloria L.  “An Inquiry into When and Why Women Learned to Write in Colonial New England.”  Journal of Social History<\/em> 24 (Spring 1991): 579-589.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manguel. Alberto.  A History of Reading<\/em>.  New York: Viking, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meeker, Martin. \u201cA Queer and Contested Medium: The Emergence of Representational Politics in the \u2018Golden Age\u2019 of Lesbian Paperbacks, 1955\u00ad1963\u201d Journal of Women\u2019s History<\/em> 17 (Spring 2005): 165\u00ad88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Millner, Michael.  Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere<\/em>.  Lebanon: University of New Hampshire Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monaghan, E. Jennifer.  “Reading for the Enslaved, Writing for the Free: Reflections on Liberty and Literacy.”  Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society<\/em> 108:2 (1998): 309-341.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monaghan, E. Jennifer.  Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moylan, Michele, and Lane Styles, eds.  Reading Books: Essays on the Material Text and Literature in America<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nagourney, Peter.  \u201cElite, Popular and Mass Literature: What People Really Read.\u201d  Journal of Popular Culture <\/em>16:1 (Summer 1982): 99-107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nord, David Paul.  “Working-class Readers: Family, Community, and Reading in Late-Nineteenth Century America.”  Communication Research<\/em> 13 (April 1996): 156-181.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Odrcic, Liana J. \u201cReading Our Lives: Collective Reading and Cultural Work in 19th and 20th Century Wisconsin Women\u2019s Book Clubs.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pawley, Christine.  Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Osage, Iowa, 1860-1900<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perlman, Joel, and Dennis Shirley.  “When Did New England Women Acquire Literacy?”  William and Mary Quarterly<\/em> 48 (January 1991): 50-67.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pettegree, Andrew.  The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading<\/em>. New York: Basic Books, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pierce, Jennifer Burek.  \u201cWhat Young Readers Ought to Know: The Successful Selling of Sexual Heath Texts in the Early Twentieth Century.\u201d Book History<\/em> 14:1 (2011): 110-136.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radaway, Janice A.  Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radway, Janice.  \u201cReading is Not Eating: Mass-Produced Literature and the Theoretical, Methodological, and Political Consequences of a Metaphor.\u201d  Book Research Quarterly<\/em> 2 (Fall 1986): 7-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reilly, Elizabeth Carroll.  “Common and Learned Readers: Shared and Separate Spheres in Mid-Eighteenth Century New England.” <\/em>PhD dissertation, Boston University, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resnick, Daniel, ed.  Literacy in Historical Perspective<\/em>.  Washington: Library of Congress, 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rubin, Joan Shelley. \u201cRepossessing the Cozzens-Macdonald Imbroglio: Middlebrow Authorship, Critical Authority, and Autonomous Readers in Postwar America.\u201d Modern Intellectual History<\/em> 7 (November 2010): 553\u2013579.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rubin, Joan Shelley. Cultural Considerations: Essays on Readers, Writers, and Musicians in Postwar America.<\/em> Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryan, Barbara, and Amy M. Thomas, eds.  Reading Acts: U.S. Readers’ Interactions with Literature, 1800-1950<\/em>.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samuel, Lawrence R.  Literacy in America: A Cultural History of the Past Century<\/em>.  Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scheil, Katherine West.  She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America<\/em>.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schmidt, Benjamin. \u201cReading Raleigh\u2019s America: Texts, Books, and Readers in the Early Modern Atlantic World,\u201d in The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550\u20131624<\/em>, ed. Peter C. Mancall, 454\u201388. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sicherman, Barbara.  “Reading and Ambition: M. Carey Thomas and Female Heroism.”  American Quarterly<\/em> 45:1 (March 1993): 73-103.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sicherman, Barbara.  Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soltow, Lee, and Edward Stevens.  The Rise of Literacy and the Common School in the United State: A Socio-economic Analysis to 1870<\/em>.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tebbe, Jennifer.  \u201cPrint and American Culture.\u201d  American Quarterly<\/em> 32:3 (1980): 259-279.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thompkins, Jane P, ed.  Reader-Response Criticism<\/em>.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thornton, Tamara Plakins.  Handwriting in America: A Cultural History<\/em>.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thurston, Carol. The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity.  <\/em>Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Towheed, Shafquat, Rosalind Crone, and Katie Halsey, eds.  The History of Reading<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Towsey, Mark.  Reading History in Britain and America, c. 1750-c.1840<\/em>.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travis, Molly Abel.  Reading Cultures: The Construction of Readers in the Twentieth Century<\/em>.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ulmer, Tisha. \u201cIndependent Women: Black Women as Consumers in Literature Written from Slavery to the Harlem Renaissance.\u201d  PhD dissertation, City University of New York, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unger, Mary I.  \u201cThe Book Circle: Black Women Readers and Middlebrow Taste in Chicago, 1943-1953.\u201d  Reception<\/em> 11 (2019): 4-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wadsworth, Sarah.   In the Company of Books: Literature and Its \u201cClasses\u201d in Nineteenth-Century America<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ward, Douglas B.  “The Reader as Consumer: Curtis Publishing Company and Its Audience, 1910-1930.” Journalism History<\/em> 22:2 (Summer 1996): 46-55.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams, Abigail.  The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home<\/em>.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wyss, Hilary E.  Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Communities in America<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zboray, Ronald J.  “Antebellum Reading and the Ironies of Technological Innovation.” American Quarterly<\/em> 40 (1988): 65-82.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zboray, Ronald J.  A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zboray, Ronald J., and Mary Saracino Zboray.  \u201cBooks, Reading, and the World of Goods in Antebellum New England.\u201d  American Quarterly<\/em> 48:4 (1996): 587-621.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zboray, Ronald J., and Mary Saracino Zboray.  Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience among Antebellum New Englanders<\/em>.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books, Publishing, Marketing and Selling Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abraham, Mildred K.  “The Library of Lady Jean Skipwith: A Book Collection from the Age of Jefferson.”  Virginia Magazine of History and Biography<\/em> 91:3 (1983): 296-347.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agnew, Jeremy.  The Age of Dimes and Pulps: A History of Sensationalist Literature, 1830-1960<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amory, Hugh.  Bibliography and the Book Trades: Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England<\/em>.  David D. Hall, ed.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amory, Hugh, and David D. Hall, eds.  A History of the Book in America, Vol. One: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World<\/em>.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andersen, Vicki.  The Dime Novel in Children\u2019s Literature<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson, Charles B., ed.  Bookselling in America and the World<\/em>.  New York: Quadrangle, 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson, Douglas.  William Bradford’s Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word.<\/em>  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ardis, Ann, and Patrick Collier, eds.  Transatlantic Print Culture, 1880-1940: Emerging Media, Emerging Modernisms<\/em>.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arndt, S. C.  \u201cBringing Books to Baltimore: Tracing Networks of Textual Importation, 1760-1825.\u201d  Book History<\/em> 16:1 (2013): 62-88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avery, Gillian.  Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books, 1621-1922<\/em>.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ballou, Ellen B.  The Building of a House: Houghton Mifflin\u2019s Formative Years<\/em>.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barchas, Janine.  Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth Century Novel<\/em>.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barnes, James J.  Authors, Publishers, and Politicians: The Quest for an Anglo-American Copyright Agreement, 1815-1854<\/em>.  Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barnhill, Georgia Brady.  Gems of Art on Paper: Illustrated American Fiction and Poetry, 1785-1885.<\/em>  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baym, Nina.  Woman\u2019s Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and About Women in America, 1820-1870<\/em>.  2ed.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beidler, Philip D.  Scriptures for a Generation: What We Were Reading in the ’60s<\/em>.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Becnel, Kim.  The Rise of Corporate Publishing and its Effects on Authorship in Early Twentieth Century America<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belliveau, Renee. \u201cThese are Not Normal Times: Masculinity and Femininity in Romance Pulps from the Second World War.\u201d Journal of American Culture<\/em> 44:1 (2021): 22-32.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benton, Megan.  \u201cToo Many Books: Book Ownership and Cultural Identity in the 1920s.\u201d American Quarterly<\/em> 49:2 (June 1997): 268-297.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benton, Megan L.  Beauty and the Book: Fine Editions and Cultural Distinction in America<\/em>.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berger, Sherri. \u201cBookbinding and the Progressive Vision\u201d Chicago History<\/em> 33 (Fall 2005): 4\u201331.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blumenthal, Joseph.  The Printed Book in America<\/em>. Boston: David R. Godine, 1977.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bobbitt, Mary Reed.  A Bibliography of Etiquette Books Published in America before 1900<\/em>.  New York: New York Public Library, 1947.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonn, Thomas L.  Under Cover: An Illustrated History of American Mass-Market Paperbacks<\/em>.  New York: Penguin, 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonn, Thomas L.  Heavy Traffic and High Culture:  New American Library as Gatekeeper in the Paperback Revolution<\/em>.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brier, Evan.  A Novel Marketplace: Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction<\/em>.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Broaddus, Dorothy C.  Genteel Rhetoric: Writing High Culture in Nineteenth-Century Boston<\/em>.  Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brodhead, Richard H. Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown, Matthew P.  The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England<\/em>.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown, Melanie Ann. \u201cFive-Cent Culture at the \u2018University in Print\u2019: Radical Ideology and the Marketplace in E. Haldeman-Julius\u2019s Little Blue Books, 1919\u20131929.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bugbee, Bruce Willis.  Genesis of American Patent and Copyright Law<\/em>. Washington DC: Public Affairs Press, 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burlingame, Roger.  Of Making Many Books: A Hundred Years of Reading, Writing, And Publishing<\/em>.  University Park: Penn State University Press, 1996.  (reprint of 1946 edition)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bussy, R. Kenneth. ed.  Philadelphia’s Publishers and Printers: An Informal History<\/em>.  Philadelphia: Book Clinic, 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carroll, Jordan.  Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class politics of US Literature. <\/em>Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Casper, Scott E., Joanne D. Chaison, and Jeffrey D. Groves, eds.  Perspectives on American Book History<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cassidy, Julie Sinn. \u201cGolden Mean: Commercial Culture, Middle-Class Ideals, and the Little Golden Books.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Florida, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castronovo, David.  Beyond the Grey Flannel Suit: Books from the 1950s That Made American Culture<\/em>.  New York: Continuum, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cazden, Robert A.  A Social History of the German Book Trade in America to the Civil War<\/em>.  Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chappell, Warren.  A Short History of the Printed Word<\/em>.  Revised edition.  Port Roberts, WA: Harley and Marks, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charvat, William.  Literary Publishing in America: 1790-1850<\/em>.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Churchwell, Sarah, and Thomas Ruys Smith, eds.  Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to the Davinci Code<\/em>. New York: Continuum, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clayton Becker, Patty.  Books and Libraries in American Society During World War II: Weapons in the War of Ideas<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clement, Richard W.  Books on the Frontier: Print Culture in the American West, 1763-1875<\/em>.  Washington DC: Library of Congress, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clements, Amy Root.  The Art of Prestige: The Formative Years at Knopf, 1915-1929<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clune, Michael W.  American Literature and the Free Market, 1945-2000<\/em>.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cody, Michael.  Charles Brockden Brown and the Literary Magazine: Cultural Journalism in the Early American Republic<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cohen, Matt.  \u201cThe History of the Book in New England: The State of the Discipline.\u201d  Book History<\/em> 11 (2008): 301-323.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cohoon, Lorinda B.  Serialized Citizenships: Periodicals, Books, and American Boys, 1840-1911<\/em>.  Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collins, Jim. Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture<\/em>.  Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coser, Lewis A., Charles Kadushin, and Walter W. Powell.  Books: The Culture and Commerce of Publishing<\/em>.  New York: Basic Books, 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Covington, D.B.  The Argus Bookshop: A Memoir<\/em>.  West Cornwall, CT: Tarrydiddle, 1977.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dardis, Tom.  Firebrand: The Life of Horace Liveright<\/em>.  New York: Random House, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darnton, Robert.  The Case for Books: Past, Present, Future<\/em>.  New York: Public Affairs Press, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davidson, Cathy N.  Revolution and the World: The Rise of the Novel in America.  <\/em>New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davidson, Cathy N., ed. Reading in America: Literature & Social History<\/em>. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis, Kenneth C. Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America.  <\/em>Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denning, Michael.  Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America.  <\/em>London: Verso, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DiCuirci, Lindsay.  Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books<\/em>.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dietrich, Lucas.  \u201cAt the Dawning of the Twentieth Century: W.E.B. DuBois, A.C. McClurg & Co., and the Early Circulation of The Souls of Black Folk<\/em>.\u201d  Book History<\/em> 20:1 (2017):307-329.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doyle Highland, Kristen.  \u201cIn the Bookstore: The Houses of Appleton and Book Cultures in Antebellum New York City.\u201d Book History<\/em> 19 (2016): 214-255.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doyle, Michael.  Radical Chapters: Pacifist Bookseller Roy Kepler and the Paperback Revolution<\/em>.  Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drew, Ned, and Paul Sternberger.  By Its Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design<\/em>.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dzwonkoski, Peter, ed.  American Literary Publishing Houses, 1900-1980: Trade and Paperback<\/em>.  Detroit: Gale Publishing, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earle, David M.  Re-Covering Modernism: Pulps, Paperbacks, and the Prejudice of Form<\/em>.  Farnham, NY: Ashgate Publishing, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earle, David M. \u201cThe Pulp New Deal: Audience, Popular Front Politics, and the Pulps as a Socially Democratic Form.\u201d Journal of American Culture<\/em> 44:1 (2021): 6-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eddy, Jacalyn.  Bookwomen: Creating an Empire in Children\u2019s Book Publishing, 1919-1939<\/em>.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eliot, Simon, and Jonathan Rose, eds.  A Companion to the History of the Book<\/em>, 2 ed.  New York: Wiley, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellery, Suzanne C.  \u201cThe Years of Growth: Best Selling Novels in America, 1918-1927.\u201d  Journal of Popular Culture <\/em>3:3 (Winter 1969): 527-552.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enoch, Kurt. “The Paper-Bound Book: Twentieth-Century Publishing Phenomenon.” Library Quarterly<\/em> 24 (1954): 211-225.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exman, Eugene.  The Brothers Harper: A Unique Publishing Partnership and Its Impact Upton the Cultural Life of America from 1817 to 1853<\/em>.  New York: Harper & Row, 1965.

Exman, Eugene.  The House of Harper: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Publishing<\/em>.  New York: Harper & Row, 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finkelstein, David, and Alistair McCleery, eds.  The Book History Reader. <\/em> 2ed.  New York: Routledge, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finkelstein, David, and Alistair McCleery.  An Introduction to Book History.<\/em> 2nd<\/sup> ed.  New York: Routledge, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flannery, Katherine Thoms.  Feminist Literacies, 1968-1975<\/em>.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foley, Abram.  The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in Postwar America<\/em>. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foote, Stephanie.  \u201cDeviant Classics: Pulps and the Making of Lesbian Print Culture.\u201d  Journal of Women in Culture and Society<\/em> 31:1 (Autumn 2005): 169\u2014190.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Franklin, Benjamin V., ed.  Boston Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers, 1640-1800<\/em>.  Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freeman, Lewis.  A Brief History of Pocket Books, 1939-1967<\/em>. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friss, Evan.  The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore<\/em>.  New York: Viking, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fulton, R. E.  \u201cDonald A. Wollheim\u2019s Authoritative Universe: Editors, Readers, and the Construction of the Science Fiction Paperback, 1926-1969.\u201d Book History<\/em> 19 (2016): 349-383.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fyfe, Aileen.  Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820-1860<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabriel, Michael R.  \u201cThe Astonishing Growth of Small Publishers, 1958-1988.\u201d  Journal of Popular Culture <\/em>24:3 (Winter 1990): 61-68.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garner, Dwight.  Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements<\/em>.  New York: Ecco, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gertzman, Jay A. \u201cThe Jack Woodford Press: Bestsellers at the Army Base, the Drug Store, and the Tourist Bookstore, 1946-1959.\u201d Journal of Popular Culture<\/em> 40:1 (2007): 25-48.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gifford, Justin.  Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing<\/em>.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilbert, Ellen D.  The House of Holt, 1866-1946: An Editorial History<\/em>.  Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glass, Loren.  Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the<\/em> Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde<\/em>.  Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glass, Loren. Rebel Publisher: Grove Press and the Revolution of the Word<\/em>. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goodstore, Tony.  The Pulps: Fifty Years of American Pop Culture<\/em>. New York: Chelsea House, 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Green, Charles Bradley.  “Passing Into Print: Walt Whitman and his Publishers.”  PhD dissertation, College of William and Mary, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Green, James.  Poor Richard’s Books: An Exhibition of Books Owned by Benjamin Franklin Now on the Shelves of the Library Company of Philadelphia<\/em>.  Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greenspan, Ezra.  George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher<\/em>.  University Park: Penn State University Press, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gunther Brown, Candy.  The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hackett, Alice<\/em> Payne, and James Henry Burke.  80 Years of Best Sellers.  <\/em>New York: Bowker, 1977.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hall, David D., and John B. Hench, eds.  Needs and Opportunities in the History of the Book: America, 1639-1876<\/em>.  Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hall, David D. Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book.  <\/em>Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harper, Joseph Henry.  The House of Harper: A Century of Publishing in Franklin Square<\/em>.  New York: Harper and Brothers, 1912.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harrington-Lueker, Donna.  Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hart, James D.  The Popular Book: A History of America’s Literary Taste<\/em>.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haugland, Ann.  \u201cBook Propaganda: Edward L. Bernays\u2019s 1930 Campaign Against Dollar Books.\u201d Book History<\/em> 3 (2000): 231-252. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haugland, Ann.   “Books and Radio: Culture and Technology in the 1920s and 1930s.”   American Journalism<\/em> 9:3-4 (1992): 66-83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hawley, Elizabeth Haven.  \u201cAmerican Publishers of Indecent Books, 1840\u20131890.\u201d PhD dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hayes, Kevin J.  Folklore and Book Culture.  <\/em>Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hefner, Brooks E.  Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow<\/em>. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hochman, Barbara.  Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin and the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoffman, Edwin D.  \u201cThe Bookshops of New York City, 1743-1948.\u201d  New York History<\/em> 30 (January 1974): 53-65.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hogan, Kristen.  The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability<\/em>.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holt, Henry.  Garrulties<\/em> of an Octogenarian Editor<\/em>.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Howard, Nicole.  The Book: The Life Story of a Technology<\/em>.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Howsam, Leslie.  Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture.  <\/em>Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hruschka, John. How Books Came to America: The Rise of the American Book Trade<\/em>. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hughes, Justin. \u201cCopyright and Incomplete Historiographies: Of Piracy, Propertization, and Thomas Jefferson.\u201d  Southern California Law Review<\/em> 79 (July 2006): 993\u20131084.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jasper, Scott E., Joanne D. Chaison, and Jeffrey D. Groves, eds.  Perspectives on Book History: Artifacts and Commentary<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johannsen, Albert.  The House of Beadle and Adams and Its Dime and Nickel Novels: The Story of Vanished Literature<\/em>.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jones, Daryl E.  The Dime Novel Western<\/em>.  Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Press, 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joyce, Donald F. Gatekeepers of Black Culture: Black Owned Book Publishing in the United States, 1817-1981.  <\/em>Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaestle, Carl F., and Janice A. Radway, eds.  A History of the Book in America, Volume 4: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiserman, Adam. \u201cThe Book and the Box: Postwar Literature and Cultural Regulation in the Age of Television.\u201d PhD dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kett, Joseph F., and Patricia A. McClung.  Book Culture in Post-Revolutionary Virginia<\/em>.  Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Korda, Michael.  Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Best-Seller, 1900-1999<\/em>.  New York: Barnes and Noble, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lacy, Tim.  \u201cMaking a Democratic Culture: The Great Books Idea, Mortimer J. Adler, and Twentieth-Century America.\u201d  PhD dissertation, Loyola University, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lambert, Josh.  \u201cPublishing Jews at Knopf.\u201d Book History<\/em> 21:1 (2018): 343-369.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laugesen, Amanda.  Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee, Charles.  The Hidden Public: The Story of the Book-of-the-Month Club<\/em>.  Garden City: Doubleday, 1958.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut, with Lawrence C. Wroth and Rollo G. Silver.  The Book in America: A History of the Making and Selling of Books in the United States<\/em>.  New York: Bowker, 1952.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luey, Beth.  Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McFeely, W. Drake. Books That Live: Norton\u2019s First One Hundred Years<\/em>. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McLuhan, Marshall.  The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man<\/em>.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McMurtie, Douglas C.  A History of Printing in the United States: The Story of the Introduction of the Press and of its Early History and Influence During the Pioneer Period in Each State of the Union<\/em>. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1936.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McParland, Robert.  Best Seller: A Century of America\u2019s Favorite Books<\/em>.  Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Madison, Charles A.\u00a0\u00a0Book Publishing in America<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: McGraw Hill, 1966.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthews, Kristin L. \u201cMaking Reading Popular: Cold War Literacy and\u00a0Classics Illustrated<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0Book History<\/em>\u00a022 (2019): 320\u2013341.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Menke, Richard. Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880-1900: Many Inventions<\/em>. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meserole, Harrison T.  \u201cThe Famous Boston Post List: Mid-Nineteenth Century American Best-Sellers.\u201d  Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America<\/em> 52 (1958): 93-110.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michelson, Bruce.  Printer\u2019s Devil: Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution<\/em>.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mylander, Jennifer. \u201cThe English in America: National Identity and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1620\u20131688.\u201d PhD dissertation, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nelson, Jennifer M. \u201cSeparate Shelves: Gender Distinctions and Market Segmentation in American Children\u2019s Publishing, 1860\u20131960.\u201d  PhD dissertation, Emory University, 2010. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nelson, W. Dale.  The Imprint of Alan Swallow: Quality Publishing in the West.<\/em> Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nord, David Paul.  Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nord, David Paul, Joan Shelley Rubin, and Michael Schudson, eds. A History of the Book in America, <\/em>vol. 5<\/em>: The Enduring Book; Print Culture in Postwar America<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norrell, Robert J.  Alex Haley and the Books that Changed a Nation<\/em>.  New York: St. Martin\u2019s Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ong, Walter J.  Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word<\/em>.  London: Metheun, 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Onosaka, Junko.  Feminist Revolution in Literacy: Women’s Bookstores in the United States<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Op de Beeck, Nathalie.  \u201cReady-made Antiques: The Picture Book in America, 1924-1944.\u201d  Phd Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Op de Beeck, Nathalie.  Suspended Animation: Children\u2019s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity<\/em>.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ostler, Stacey M.  The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century<\/em>.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parry, Rosalind. The Art of the Reprint: Nineteenth-Century Novels in Twentieth-Century Editions<\/em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pescosolido, Bernice A., Elizabeth Grauerholz, and Melissa A. Milkie.  \u201cCulture and Conflict: The Portrayal of Blacks in US Children\u2019s Picture Books Through the Mid- and Late- Twentieth Century.\u201d  American Sociological Review<\/em> 62:3 (June 1997): 443-464.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petersen, Clarence. The Bantam Story: Thirty Years of Paperback Publishing<\/em>. New York: Bantam Books, 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pfitzer, Gregory M.  Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840-1920<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poole, Alex H.  \u201cAs Popular as Pin-Up Girls: The Armed Services Editions, Masculinity, and Middlebrow Print Culture in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States.\u201d Information & Culture<\/em> 52:4 (2017): 462-486.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Potter, Rachel.  “Obscene Modernism and the Trade in Salacious Books.”  modernism<\/em> \/ modernity<\/em> 16:1 (January 2009): 87\u2013104.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Powers, Alan.  Front Cover: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design<\/em>. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rabinowitz, Paula.  American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street<\/em>.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radaway, Janice A.  A Feeling for Books: The Book of the Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle Class Desire<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raven, James.  London Booksellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748\u20131811<\/em>. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raven, James, ed.  The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reay, Barry, and Nina Attwood. Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-Garde in Mid-Century Paris and New York<\/em>. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rogers, W.G.  Wise Men Fish Here: The Story of Frances Steloff and the Gotham Book Mart<\/em>.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, World, 1965.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Round, Phillip H.  Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rubin, Joan Shelley.  \u201cWhat is the History of the History of Books?\u201d  Journal of American History<\/em> 90:2 (September 2003): 555-575.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryan, Susan M.  The Moral Economies of American Authorship: Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace<\/em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Satterfield, Jay.  The World’s Best Books: Taste, Culture, and the Modern Library<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schick, Frank L.  The Paperbound Book in America: The History of Paperbacks and Their European Background<\/em>.  New York: Bowker, 1958.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schnapp, Jeffrey T., and Adam Michaels.  The Electric Information Age Book: McLuhan\/ Agel \/ Fiore and the Experimental Paperback<\/em>.  New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schreuders, Piet.  Paperbacks, USA: A Graphic History, 1939-1959<\/em>.  San Diego: Blue Dolphin, 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schreyer, Alice D.  “Copyright and Books in Nineteenth-Century America.”  In Getting the Books Out<\/em>, ed. Michael Hackenberg.  Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schwed, Peter.  Turning the Pages: An Insider’s Story of Simon & Schuster<\/em>.  New York: Macmillan, 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scribner, Charles, Jr.  In the Company of Writers<\/em>.  New York: Scribner’s, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Server, Lee.  Over My Dead Body: The Sensational Age of the American Paperback, 1945-1955<\/em>.  San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheehan, Donald.  This Was Publishing: A Chronicle of the Book Trade in the Gilded Age<\/em>.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1952.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheets, Kevin B.  \u201cAntiquity Bound: The Loeb Classical Library as Middlebrow Culture in the Early Twentieth Century.\u201d  Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era<\/em> 4:2 (April 2005): 149-171.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shove, Raymond.  Cheap Book Production in the United States, 1870-1891<\/em>.  Urbana: University of Illinois Library, 1937.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silverman, Al. The Time of their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, their Editors, and Authors<\/em>. New York: Truman Talley Books, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith, Steven Carl. \u201c\u2018Elements of Useful Knowledge\u2019: New York and the National Book Trade in the Early Republic.\u201d Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America<\/em> 106 (December 2012): 487\u2013538.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith, Steven Carl.  \u201cThe Many Histories of Books in the Early American Republic.\u201d  Journal of the Early Republic<\/em> 37:3 (Fall 2017): 537-553.

Smith, Steven Carl.  An Empire in Print: The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic<\/em>.  State College: Penn State University Press, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith, Steven E., Catherine A. Hastedt, and Donald H. Dyal, eds.   American Book and Magazine Illustrators to 1920<\/em>.   Detroit: Gale Research, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sommerville, Henry S. \u201cCommerce and Culture in the Career of the Permanent Innovative Press: New Directions, Grove Press, and George Braziller Inc.\u201d PhD dissertation, University of Rochester, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stein, Harry H.  \u201cThe Muckraking Book in America, 1946-1973.\u201d Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 52:2 (1975): 297-303.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steinroetter, Vanessa Y. \u201cRepresentations of Readers and Scenes of Reading in American Literature of the Civil War.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sterne, Madeline B.  Books and Book People in Nineteenth Century America<\/em>.  New York: Bowker, 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sterne, Madeline B.  Publishers for Mass Entertainment in Nineteenth Century America<\/em>.  Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stein, Harry H.  \u201cThe Muckraking Book in America, 1946-1973.\u201d  Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 52 (Summer 1975): 297-303.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stokes, Claudia. \u201cCopyrighting American History: International Copyright and the Periodization of the Nineteenth Century.\u201d American Literature<\/em> 77 (June 2005): 291\u00ad3-17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stone, Albert E.  Literary Aftershocks: American Writers, Readers, and the Bomb<\/em>.  New York: Twayne, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suarez, Michael F. S.J., and H.R. Woudhuysen, eds.  The Book: A Global History<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sullivan, Larry E., and Lydia Cushman Schurman, eds.  Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks<\/em>.  New York: Haworth, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sutton, Walter.  The Western Book Trade: Cincinnati and a Nineteenth-Century Publishing and Book Trade Center<\/em>.  Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1961.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tebbel, John William. Paperback Books: A Pocket History<\/em>. New York: Pocket Books, 1964.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tebbel, John.  Between Covers: The Rise and Transformation of American Publishing<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas, Amy M. “`There is Nothing so Effective as a Personal Canvass’: Revaluing Nineteenth-Century American Subscription Books” Book History<\/em> 1 (1998): 140-55.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thompson, Ralph.  American Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 1825-1865.<\/em>  New York: Archon Books, 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Todd, Emily B.  \u201cTransatlantic Book Trade and Copyright.\u201d  American Literary History<\/em> 30: 1 (Spring 2018): 145-156.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tompkins, Jane.  West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travis, Patricia Ann.  \u201cReading Matters: Book Men, Serious Readers, and the Rise of Mass Culture, 1930-1965.\u201d  Phd dissertation, Yale University, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Benschoten, Virginia.  \u201cChanges in Best Sellers since World War I.\u201d  Journal of Popular Culture <\/em>1:4 (Spring 1968): 379-388.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wadsworth, Sarah.  In the Company of Books: Literature and its \u201cClasses\u201d in Nineteenth-Century America<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ward, Gerald W.R.  The American Illustrated Book in the Nineteenth Century<\/em>.  Winterthur, Del.:  Winterthur Museum, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warnock, John E. \u201cSimple Ideas That Changed Printing and Publishing.\u201d Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society<\/em> 156 (December 2012): 363\u2013378. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whelehan, Imelda.  The Feminist Best-Seller: From Sex and the Single Girl to Sex and the City.  <\/em>New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winckles, Andrew O. \u201cObscure Women, Obscure Networks, and Women\u2019s Book History.\u201d Huntington Library Quarterly<\/em> 84:1 (Spring 2021): 113-122.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winship, Michael.  American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields. <\/em>Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winship, Michael.  \u201cThe Tragedy of the Book Industry?: Bookstores and Book Distribution in the United States to 1950.\u201d Studies in Bibliography<\/em> 58 (2007-2008): 145-184.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wolfe, Gerard R.  The House of Appleton<\/em>.  Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wosh, Peter J.  Spreading the Word: The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America<\/em>.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zboray, Ronald J, and Mary Saracino Zboray.  Literary Dollars and Social Sense: A People’s History of the Mass Market Book<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zink, Amanda J.  Fictions of Western American Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850-1950<\/em>.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zissner, William.  A Family of Readers: An Informal Portrait of the Book-of-the-Month Club and Its Members on the Occasion of its 60th Anniversary<\/em>.  New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authors and Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albertine, Susan, ed.  A Living of Words:  American Women in Print Culture. <\/em>Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bold, Christine.  Writers, Plumbers, and Anarchists: The WPA Writers\u2019 Project in Massachusetts<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Botshan, Lisa, and Meredeth Goldsmith, eds.  Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s<\/em>.  Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boyd, Anne E.  “What, Has She Gotten into the Atlantic<\/em>?  Women Writers, the Atlantic Monthly<\/em>, and the Forming of the American Canon.”  American Studies<\/em> 39 (Fall 1998): 5-36.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bracha, Oren. \u201cThe Ideology of Authorship Revisited: Authors, Markets, and Liberal Values in Early American Copyright.\u201d Yale Law Journal<\/em> 118 (November 2008): 186\u2013271.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cane, Aleta F. and Susan Alves, eds., The Only Efficient Instrument: American Women Writers and the Periodical, 1837-1916. <\/em>Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carby, Hazel.  Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cayton, Mary Kupiec.  \u201cThe Making of an American Prophet: Emerson, His Audience, and the Rise of the Culture Industry in Nineteenth Century America.\u201d  American Historical Review<\/em> 92 (June 1987): 597-620.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charvat, William.  The Profession of Authorship in America1800-1870.  <\/em>ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli.  Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chielens, Edward E., ed.  American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries<\/em>.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark, Suzanne.  Sentimental Modernism.  Women Writers and the Revolution of the Word<\/em>.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cody, Michael.  Charles Brockden Brown and the Literary Magazine: Cultural Journalism in the Early American Republic<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cohen, Laura Langer.  The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture<\/em>. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conrad, Susan P.  Perish the Thought: Intellectual Women in Romantic America<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cyganowski, Carol K.  Magazine Editors and Professional Authors in Nineteenth Century America<\/em>.  New York: Garland Publishing, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davidson, Cathy N.  Revolution and the World: The Rise of the Novel in America.  <\/em>New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delaney, Sean. \u201cTransatlantic Print Culture and the Rise of New England Literature, 1620\u20131630.\u201d  PhD dissertation, Northeastern University, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dobson, Joanne.  \u201cReclaiming Sentimental Literature.\u201d  American Literature<\/em> 69 (1997): 263-288.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Douglas, George H.  The Smart Magazines: Fifty Years of Literary Revelry and High Jinks at Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Life, Esquire, and The Smart Set<\/em>. Hamden, CT: Archon, 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dowling, David.  Capital Letters: American Authors and the Antebellum Literary Marketplace. <\/em>Iowa City: <\/em>University of Iowa Press, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dowling, David.  The Business of Literary Circles in Nineteenth-Century America. <\/em>New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dowling, David.  Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace: Writers and Mentors in Nineteenth Century America<\/em>.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fine, Richard.  Hollywood and the Profession of Authorship, 1928-1940<\/em>.  Ann Arbor: UMI, 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glass, Loren.  Authors, Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880-1980<\/em>.  New York: NYU Press, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilmore, Paul.  The Genuine Article: Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood<\/em>.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gingrich, Arnold.  Nothing But People: The Early Days at Esquire<\/em>.  New York: Crown, 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glazener, Nancy.  Literature in the Making: A History of U.S. Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hammill, Faye.  Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture Between the Wars<\/em>.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris, Sharon M., ed. American Women Writers to 1800. <\/em>New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris, Sharon M., ed. Redefining the Political Novel: American Women Writers, 1797-1901. <\/em>Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hochman, Barbara.  Getting at the Author.  Re-imagining Books and Reading in the Age of American Realism<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ihara, Rachel. \u201cNovels on the Installment Plan: American Authorship in the Age of Serial Publication, from Stowe to Hemingway.\u201d PhD dissertation, City University of New York, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson, Leon.  The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America<\/em>.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jaffe, Aaron.  Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity<\/em>.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johanningsmeier, Charles.  “The Devil, Capitalism, and Frank Norris: Defining the “Reading Field” for Sunday Newspaper Fiction, 1870-1910.”  American Periodicals<\/em> 14:1 (2004): 91-112.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan-Lake, Joy.  Whitewashing Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin: Nineteenth Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe<\/em>.  Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaplan, Catherine O\u2019Donnell.  Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaplan, Fred.  Sacred Tears: Sentimentality in Victorian Literature<\/em>. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laugesen, Amanda.  Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War.  <\/em>Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lund, Michael.  America’s Continuing Story: An Introduction to Serial Fiction, 1850-1900<\/em>.  Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marvin, Charles. \u201cNineteenth-Century Professional Culture and the Development of American Authorship.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthews, Kristin.  Reading America: Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCall, Laura.  “Symmetrical Minds: Literary Men and Women in Antebellum America.”  PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McGill, Meredith L.  American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853<\/em>.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McHenry, Elizabeth.  To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship<\/em>.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McLaughlin, Kevin.  Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age.<\/em>  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newbury, Michael.  Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America. <\/em>Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okker, Patricia. Our Sister Editors: Sarah J. Hale and the Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Women Editors<\/em>. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price, Kenneth M., and Susan Belasco Smith.  Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America<\/em>.  Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robbins, Sarah.  \u201cThe Future Good and Great of Our Lands: Republican Mothers, Authors, and Domesticated Literacy in Antebellum New England.\u201d  New England Quarterly<\/em> 75:4 (December 2002): 562-591.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rose, Mark.  Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright<\/em>.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samuels, Shirley, ed.  The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth Century America<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scheick, William J.   Authority and Female Authorship in Colonial America. <\/em>Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schorb, Jodi.  Reading Prisoners: Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700-1845<\/em>.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sedgwick, Ellery. “Magazines and the Profession of Authorship in the United States, 1840-1900.”  Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America<\/em> 94 (September 2000): 399-425.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sinche, Bryan.  Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thompkins, Jane.  Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tonkovich, Nicole.  Domesticity With a Difference: The Nonfiction of Catharine Beecher, Sarah J. Hale, Fanny Fern and Margaret Fuller. <\/em>Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wald, Alan M.  Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weber, Ronald.  Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America\u2019s Golden Age of Print<\/em>.  Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

West, James L.  American Authors and the Literary Marketplace since 1900<\/em>.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilson, Christopher.  The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era<\/em>.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ziff, Larzer.  Writing in the New Nation: Prose, Print, and Politics in the Early United States.  <\/em>New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Libraries and School Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Augst, Thomas.  “The Business of Reading in Nineteenth-Century America: The New York Mercantile Library.”  American Quarterly<\/em> 50:2 (1998): 267-305.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Augst, Thomas, and Wayne Wiegand.   Libraries as Agencies of Culture. <\/em> Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Augst, Thomas, and Kenneth Carpenter, eds.  Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Battles, David M.  The History of Public Library Access for African Americans in the South: Or, Leaving behind the Plow<\/em>.  Lanham: Scarecrow, 2009. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Billman, Carol. \u201cMcGuffy\u2019s Readers and Alger\u2019s Fiction: The Gospel of Virtue According to Popular Children\u2019s Literature.\u201d  Journal of Popular Culture<\/em> 11:3 (Winter 1977): 614-619.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg, Kristin Mapel. \u201c\u2018How Shall We Make Beatrice Grow!\u2019: Clara Bewick Colby and the Beatrice Public Library Association in the 1870s.\u201d Nebraska History<\/em> 92 (Winter 2011): 170\u2013183. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bobinski, George S. Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development.  <\/em>Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonn, Thomas L. Heavy Traffic and High Culture: The New American Library as Literary Gatekeeper in the Paperback Revolution.  <\/em>Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bostwick, Arthur Elmore.  The American Public Library<\/em>.  New York: Appleton, 1929.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breisch, Kenneth.  American Libraries, 1730-1950<\/em>.  New York: Norton, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bruenckner, Martin.  The Rule of Geography in Early America: Maps, Textbooks, and the Making of Identity<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cassity, R. O. Joe, Jr. \u201cA Reading Room of Their Own: Library Services for African Americans in Oklahoma, 1907\u20131946.\u201d  Chronicles of Oklahoma<\/em> 84 (Fall 2006): 308\u201321.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clayton Becker, Patti.  Books and Libraries in American Society During World War II<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 2004. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cook, Karen. \u201cStruggles Within: Lura G. Currier, the Mississippi Library Commission, and Library Services to African Americans.\u201d Information and Culture: A Journal of History<\/em> 48 (no. 1, 2013): 134\u2013156.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cummings, Jennifer. \u201c\u2018How Can We Fail?\u2019 The Texas State Library\u2019s Traveling Libraries and Bookmobiles, 1916\u20131966.\u201d Libraries & the Cultural Record<\/em> 44: 3 (2009): 299\u2013325.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finchum, Tanya Ducker, and Allen Finchum. \u201cNot Gone with the Wind: Libraries in Oklahoma in the 1930s.\u201d Libraries and the Cultural Record<\/em> 46: 3 (2011): 276\u2013294.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fiske, Marjorie.  Book Selection and Censorship: A Study of School and Public Libraries in California<\/em>.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fries, Sylvia D.  \u201cThe Slavery Issue in Northern School Readers, Geographies and Histories, 1850-1875.\u201d  Journal of Popular Culture <\/em>4:3 (Winter 1970): 717-731.

Garrison, Dee.  Apostles of Culture: The Public Librarian and American Society, 1876-1920<\/em>.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003  Reprint of 1979 edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glynn, Tom.  \u201cBooks for a Reformed Republic: The Apprentices\u2019 Library of New York City, 1820-1865.\u201d  Libraries & Culture<\/em> 35 (Fall 1999): 347-372.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glynn, Tom. \u201cThe New York Society Library: Books, Authority, and Publics in Colonial and Early Republican New York\u201d Libraries & Culture<\/em> 40 (Fall 2005): 493\u2013529.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glynn, Thomas Peter. \u201cBooks in the Public Sphere: New York Libraries and the Culture-Building Enterprise, 1754\u20131904.\u201d  PhD dissertation, Auburn University, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glynn, Tom.  Reading Publics: New York City\u2019s Public Libraries, 1754-1911<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gross, Robert A.  “Much Instruction from Little Reading:  Books and Libraries in Thoreau’s Concord.”  Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society<\/em>.  97:1 (1987): 128-188.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hanbury, Dallas. The Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898-1963<\/em>. New York: Lexington Books, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heim, Kathleen M., ed.  The Status of Women in Librarianship<\/em>.  New York: Neal-Schuman, 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johanningsmeier, Charles.  “Welcome Guests or Representatives of the “Mal-Odorous Class”? Periodicals and Their Readers in American Public Libraries, 1876-1914.” Libraries & Culture<\/em> 39:3 (Summer 2004): 260-292.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson, Thomas E. Common Place: The Public Library, Civil Society and Early American Values<\/em>. Amherst: Levellers Press, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson-Jones, Aisha M.  The African American Struggle for Library Equality: The Untold Story of the Julius Rosenwald Fund Library Fund<\/em>.  Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joselit, Jenna Weissman, \u201cReading, Writing, and the Library Card: New York Jews and the New York Public Library.\u201d  Biblion<\/em>: The Bulletin of the New York Public Library<\/em> 5 (Fall 1996): 97-117.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knott, Cheryl.  Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kuffner, Michael R. \u201cFrom Public Schools to Public Libraries: Examining the Impact of Brown v. Board of Education<\/em> on the Desegregation of Public Libraries.\u201d Alabama Law Review<\/em> 59:4 (2008): 1247\u20131275.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latham, Joyce M. \u201cWhite Collar Read: The American Public Library and the Left-Led CIO: A Case Study of the Chicago Public Library, 1929\u20131952.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latham, Joyce M. \u201cMemorial Day to Memorial Library: The South Chicago Branch Library as Cultural Terrain, 1937\u20131947.\u201d Libraries and the Cultural Record<\/em> 46: 3 (2011): 321\u2013342.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lear, Bernadette A. \u201cYankee Librarian in the Diamond City: Hannah Packard James, the Osterhout Free Library of Wilkes-Barre, and the Public Library Movement in Pennsylvania.\u201d Pennsylvania History<\/em> 78 (Spring 2011): 123\u2013162.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lear, Bernadette A.  Made Free and Thrown Open to the Public: Community Libraries in Pennsylvania from the Colonial Era Through World War II.  <\/em>Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lerner, Fred.  The Story of Libraries:  From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age<\/em>. 2 ed.  New York: Continuum, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lindberg, Stanley W.  \u201cInstitutionalizing a Myth: The McGuffy Readers and the Self-Made Man.\u201d Journal of American Culture<\/em> 2:1 (Spring 1979): 71-82.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lindell, Lisa R. \u201cA \u2018Splendid Service\u2019: The South Dakota Free Library Commission in the 1930s.\u201d South Dakota History<\/em> 35 (Fall 2005): 249\u201371.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCrossen, Alexis.  \u201c\u2018One Cathedral More\u2019 or \u2018Mere Lounging Places for Bummers\u2019? The Cultural Politics of Leisure and the Public Library in Gilded Age America.\u201d  Libraries & Culture<\/em> 41 (Spring 2006): 169\u201388.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin, Lowell A.  Enrichment: A History of the Public Library in the United States in the Twentieth Century<\/em>.  Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Novotny, Eric. \u201c\u2018Bricks without Straw\u2019: Economic Hardship and Innovation in the Chicago Public Library during the Great Depression,\u201d\u00a0Libraries and the Cultural Record.<\/em>\u00a046: 3 (2011): 258\u2013275.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Novotny, Eric. “From Inferno to Freedom: Censorship in the Chicago Public Library, 1910\u20131936.”\u00a0Library Trends<\/em>\u00a063, no. 1 (2014): 27-41.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Passet, Joanne Ellen.  Cultural Crusaders: Women Librarians in the American West, 1900-1917<\/em>.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pawley, Christine.  Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Osage, Iowa, 1860-1900<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pawley, Christine.  Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pawley, Christine, and Louise S. Robbins, eds.  Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America<\/em>.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollak, Oliver.  \u201cNebraska\u2019s Libraries at War, 1917\u20131919.\u201d  Nebraska History<\/em> 87 (Fall 2006): 120\u2013132.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preer, Jean. \u201c\u2018Wake Up and Read!\u2019: Book Promotion and National Library Week, 1958.\u201d Libraries & the Cultural Record<\/em> 45:1 (2010: 92\u2013106.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robbins, Louise S. Censorship and the American Public Library: The American Library Association\u2019s Response to Threats to Intellectual Freedom<\/em>.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robbins, Louise S.  The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library<\/em>.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robbins, Louis S.  \u201cThe Overseas Libraries Controversy and the Freedom to Read: U.S. Librarians and Publishers Confront Joseph McCarthy.\u201d  Libraries & Culture<\/em> 36:1 (Winter 2001): 27-39.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selby, Mike.  Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South<\/em>.  Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shapiro, Adam R.  Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Anti-Evolution Movement in American Schools<\/em>.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shera, Jesse H.  Foundations of the Public Library:  The Origins of the Public Library Movement in New England, 1629-1855<\/em>.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spencer, Brett. \u201cFrom Atomic Shelters to Arms Control: Libraries, Civil Defense, and American Militarism during the Cold War.\u201d Information and Culture: A Journal of History<\/em> 49: 3 (2014): 351\u2013385.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stauffer, Andrew M.  Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library<\/em>.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stiffler, Stuart A. \u201cBooks and Reading in the Connecticut Western Reserve: The Small-Settlement Social Library, 1800\u20131860.\u201d Libraries and the Cultural Record<\/em> 46:4 (2011): 388\u2013411.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stotts, Stuart.  \u201cA Thousand Little Libraries: Lutie Stearns, Wisconsin\u2019s Johnny Appleseed of Books.\u201d  Wisconsin Magazine of History<\/em> 90 (Winter 2006\u20132007): 38\u201349.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swetnam, Susan H.  Books, Bluster, and Bounty: Local Politics and Carnegie Library Building Grants in the Intermountain West, 1890\u20131920<\/em>. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Towsey, Mark, and Kyle B. Roberts, eds.  Before the Public Library: Reading, Community, and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850<\/em>.  Boston: Brill, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valentine, Patrick M.  \u201cAmerica\u2019s Antebellum Social Libraries: A Reappraisal in Institutional Development.\u201d Library & Information History<\/em> 27:1 (March 2011): 32-51.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Slyck, Abigail.  Free for All: Carnegie Libraries and American Culture, 1880-1920<\/em>.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Westerhoff, John H., III.  McGuffy<\/em> and His Readers: Piety, Morality, and Education in Nineteenth-Century America<\/em>.  Nashville: Abingdon, 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiegand, Shirley, and Wayne A. Wiegand.  The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South:  Civil Rights and Local Activism<\/em>.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiegand, Wayne A.  An Active Instrument for Propaganda:  The American Public Library During World War I.<\/em>  Westport: Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiegand, Wayne A., and Sarah Wadsworth. \u201cBy Invitation Only: The American Library Association and the Woman\u2019s Building Library of the World\u2019s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.\u201d Signs<\/em> 35 (Spring 2010): 699\u2013722.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiegand, Wayne A. \u201c\u2018An Established Institution\u2019: The Morris Public Library of Morris, Illinois, 1913\u20131953.\u201d Journal of Illinois History<\/em> 13 (Winter 2010): 265\u2013288.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiegand, Wayne A. \u201c\u2018Books Not Bullets\u2019: A Communist Campaign for the Minneapolis Library Board.\u201d Minnesota History<\/em> 62 (Winter 2010\u20132011): 148\u2013158.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiegand, Wayne A.  Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876-1956<\/em>.  Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiegand, Wayne A.  Part of Our Lives: A People\u2019s History of the Public Library<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiegand, Wayne A.  In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries<\/em>.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yankaskas, Lynda K. \u201cBorrowing Culture: Social Libraries and American Civic Life, 1731\u20131854.\u201d PhD dissertation, Brandeis University, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Censorship of Books and Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adelman, Bob.  Tijuana Bibles: The Art and Wit of America’s Forbidden Funnies, 1930s-1950s.<\/em>  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography.  Final Report<\/em>, 2 vols.  Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1986. (a.k.a.The Meese Commission Report)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blanchard, Paul.  The Right to Read: The Battle Against Censorship<\/em>.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1955. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bogart, Max.  \u201cA Study in Certain Legally Banned Novels in the United States, 1900-1950.\u201d PhD dissertation, New York University, 1956. 

Boyer, Paul S.  Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America.  <\/em>revised edition.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.  originally published by Scribner’s, 1968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cadegan, Una M.  All Good Books Are Catholic Books: Print Culture, Censorship, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century America<\/em>.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013.

Collins, Roland K.L., and David M. Skover.  The People v. Ferlinghetti: The Fight to Publish Allen Ginsberg\u2019s<\/em> Howl.  Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Craig, Alec.  Suppressed Books: A History of the Conception of Literary Obscenity<\/em>.  Cleveland: World Publishing, 1963.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darnton, Robert.  Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature<\/em>.  New York: W.W. Norton, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence.  Howl of the Censor<\/em>.  San Carlos, Cal.: Nourse Pub. Co., 1961. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ford, Hugh.  Published in Paris<\/em>.  New York: Pushcart, 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freyer, Peter.  The Birth Controllers<\/em>.  New York: Stein and Day, 1966.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gamlin, Douglas H.  The Tijuana Bible Reader<\/em>.  San Diego: Greenleaf, 1969.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geller, Evelyn.  Forbidden Books in American Public Libraries, 1876-1939: A Study in Cultural Change<\/em>.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 1984.

Gertzman, Jay A.  Bookleggers<\/em> and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940<\/em>.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gertzman, Jay A.  \u201cThe Jack Woodford Press: Bestsellers at the Army Base, the Drug Store, and the Tourist Bookstore, 1946-1959.\u201d  Journal of Popular Culture<\/em> 40:1 (February 2007): 25-48.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goldstein, Robert Justin. \u201cWatching the Books: The Federal Government\u2019s Suppression of the Washington Cooperative Bookshop, 1939\u20131950.\u201d American Communist History<\/em> 12 (December 2013): 237\u2013265.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gurstein, Rochelle.  The Repeal of Reticence: A History of America\u2019s Cultural and Legal Struggles over Free Speech, Obscenity, Sexual Liberation, and Modern Art<\/em>.  New York: Hill & Wang, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haight, Anne L.  Banned Books<\/em>.  4th Edition.  New York: Bowker, 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamalian, Leo.  \u201cNobody Knows My Names: Samuel Roth and the Underside of Modern Letters.\u201d  Journal of Modern Literature<\/em> 3:4 (April 1974): 889-921.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holt, R.G.  Little \u201cDirty\u201d Comics<\/em>.  San Diego: Socio Library, 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hovey, Elizabeth B.  “Stamping Out Smut: The Enforcement of Obscenity Laws, 1872-1915.”  PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karolides, Nicholas J.  Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds<\/em>.  New York: Facts on File, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kendrick, Walter.  The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture<\/em>.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCormick, John, and Mairi MacInnes, eds.  Versions of Censorship: An Anthology<\/em>.  Chicago: Aldine, 1962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McKeon, Richard, Robert K. Merton, and Walter Gellhorn.  The Freedom to Read<\/em>.  New York: Bowker, 1957.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Makris, John N.  The Silent Investigators: The Great Untold Story of the United States Postal Inspection Service<\/em>.  New York: Dutton, 1959.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mendez, Peter.  Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English, 1800-1930: A Bibliographical Study<\/em>.  Aldershot: Scolar, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parker, Alison.  Purifying America: Women, Cultural Reform, and Pro-Censorship Activism, 1873-1933<\/em>.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rembar, Charles.  The End of Obscenity: The Trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer, and Fanny Hill.<\/em>  New York: Random House, 1968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sova, Dawn B.  Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds<\/em>.  New York: Facts on File, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spear, Lisa K.  “Paperback Pornography: Mass Market Novels and Censorship in Postwar America.”  Journal of American Culture<\/em> 24 (Fall\/Winter 2001): 153-160.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vanderham, Paul.  James Joyce and Censorship: The Trials of Ulysses<\/em>.  New York: New York University Press, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wartzman, Rick.  Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck\u2019s The Grapes of Wrath<\/em>.  New York: Public Affairs Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Werbel, Amy.  Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock<\/em>.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiegand, Shirley, and Wayne A. Wiegand.  Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland<\/em>.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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