Print Culture, Reading, Books, Libraries, and Literacy
Printers, Printing Press and the Emergence of Print Culture
Butler, Pierce. The Origin of Printing in Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940.
Cavallo, Guglielmo, and Roger Chartier, eds. A History of Reading in the West. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
Curran, Mark. “Beyond the Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France.” Historical Journal 56 (March 2013): 89-112.
Chartier, Roger, ed. The Culture of Print: Power and the Uses of Print in Early Modern Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Chartier, Roger. The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.
Chartier, Roger. The Author’s Hand and the Printer’s Mind. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2014.
Dane, Joseph A. What is a Book? The Study of Early Printed Books. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012.
Darnton, Robert. The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History. New York: Basic Books, 1984.
Darnton, Robert. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France. New York: Norton, 1995.
Diebert, Ronald L. Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communication in World Order Transformation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L, and Adrian Johns. “How Revolutionary Was the Print Revolution?: An AHR Forum.” American Historical Review 107 (February 2002): 84-128.
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of Ending. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Ezell, Margaret J.M. Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Febvre, Lucien, and Henri-Jean Martin. The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800. London: N.L.B., 1976.
Gee, Malcolm, and Tim Kirk, eds. Printed Matters : Printing, Publishing and Urban Culture in Europe in the Modern Period. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2002.
Ginzburg, Carlo. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller. New York: Penguin Books, 1982.
Grafton, Anthony. Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2020.
Hindman, Sandra, ed. Printing the Written Word: The Social History of Books, circa 1450-1520. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Lause, Mark A. Some Degree of Power: From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in the Preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778-1815. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991.
Man, John. Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
McKitterick, David. Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Moran, James. Printing Presses: History and Development from the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
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.
Williams, Raymond. The Long Revolution. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961.
Wrightson, Nick. “Those With Great Abilities Have Not Always the Best Information: How Franklin’s Trans-Atlantic Book-Trade and Scientific Networks Interacted, ca. 1730-1757.” Early American Studies 8:1 (Winter 2010): 94-119.
Zaret, David. Origins of a Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Studies of Literacy and Reading
Abel, Trudy. “A Man of Letters, a Man of Business: Edward Stratemeyer and the Adolescent Reader, 1890-1930.” PhD dissertation, Rutgers University, 1993.
Albertine, Susan, ed. A Living of Words: American Women in Print Culture. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996.
Aliaga-Buchenau, Ana-Isabel. The Dangerous Potential of Reading: Readers and the Negotiation of Power in Nineteenth Century Narratives. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Altick, Richard D. The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.
Amory, Hugh. Bibliography and the Book Trades: Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Anderson, Electa E. “Literary Transformations: Civilized Reading and Reform in the Progressive Era West.” PhD dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2012.
Armstrong, Erica R. “A Mental and Moral Feast: Reading, Writing, and Sentimentality in Black Philadelphia.” Journal of Women’s History 16:1 (2004): 78-102.
Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Aronson, Amy Beth. Taking Liberties: Early American Women’s Magazines and Their Readers. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002.
Barton Schweiger, Beth. The Literate South: Reading Before Emancipation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
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 37:3 (Spring 2004): 601-624.
Baym, Nina. Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Bibbs, Maria L. “The African American Literacy Myth: Literacy’s Ethical Objective during the Progressive Era, 1890–1919.” PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011.
Birkerts, Sven. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in the Electronic Age. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1994.
Blair, Amy Lynn. “Reading Up: Middle Class Readers and Narratives of Success from the 1890s to the 1920s.” PhD dissertation, Cornell University, 2002.
Blair, Amy. Reading Up: Middle Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012.
Boyarin, Jonathan, ed. The Ethnography of Reading. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Bourdreau, George. “Highly Valuable and Extensively Useful: Community and Readership Among the 18th Century Middling Sort.” Pennsylvania History 63:3 (Summer 1996): 302-329.
Brayman Hackel, Heidi, and Catherine E. Kelly, eds. Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500–1800. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Brazeau, Alicia. Circulating Literacy: Writing Instruction in American Periodicals, 1880-1910. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016.
Brodhead, Richard C. Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Brown, Matthew P. The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Brown, Richard D. Knowledge is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Casper, Scott E., et al., eds., A History of the Book in America, vol. 3: The Industrial Book, 1840–1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Christian, Shawn Anthony. The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of the New Negro Reader. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.
Clark, Beverly Lyon. Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children’s Literature in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Cohen, Patricia Cline. A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Cohoon, Lorinda B. Serialized Citizenships: Periodicals, Books, and American Boys, 1840-1910. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2006.
Cornelius, Janet Duitsman. “When I Can Read my Title Clear”: Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the Antebellum South. Columbia: University of South Carollina Press, 1991.
Crain, Patricia. The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from the New England Primer to the Scarlet Letter. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Crain, Patricia. “Postures and Places: The Child Reader in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Popular Print.” English Literary History 80 (Summer 2013): 343–372.
Davidson, Cathy N. Reading in America: Literature and Social History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
Davidson, Cathy N. “The Novel as Subversive Activity: Women Reading, Women Writing” in Beyond the American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism, Alfred F. Young, ed. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1993.
Docherty, Linda J. “Women as Readers: Visual Interpretations.” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 107:2 (1998): 335-388.
Felsenstein, Frank, and James J. Connolly. What Middletown Read: Print Culture in a Small American City. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.
Ferguson, Robert A. Reading the Early Republic. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Flint, Kate. The Woman Reader, 1837-1914. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Flynn, Elizabeth A., and Patrocino P. Schweichart, eds. Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
Foster, Frances Smith. “A Narrative of the Interesting Origins and (Somewhat) Surprising Developments of African-American Print Culture.” American Literary History 17 (Winter 2005): 714–40.
Gallegos, Bernardo P. Literacy, Education, and Society in New Mexico, 1693-1821. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
Garfield, Michelle N. “Literary Societies: The Work of Self-Improvement and Racial Uplift,” in Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds, ed. Kristin Waters and Carol B. Conaway, 113–28. Burlington: University of Vermont Press, 2007.
Garrison, Dee. “Immoral Fiction in the Late Victorian Library.” American Quarterly 28:1 (Spring 1976): 71-89.
Gilmore, William J. “Elementary Literacy on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution, 160-1830.” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 98 (1982): 87-178.
Gilmore, William. Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780-1835. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.
Glazener, Nancy. Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.
Gordon, Edward E., and Elaine H. Gordon. Literacy in America: Historic Journey and Contemporary Solutions. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003.
Graff, Harvey. The Literacy Myth: Literacy and Social Structure in the Nineteenth Century City. New York: Academic Press, 1979.
Graff, Harvey. The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
Gross, Robert A. “Reading Cultures, Reading Books.” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 106:1 (1996): 59-78.
Gunther Brown, Candy. The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Hackel, Heidi Brayman, and Catherine E. Kelly, eds. Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500–1800. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Harker, Jaime. America the Middlebrow: Women’s Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.
Hayes, Kevin J. A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.
Hobbs, Catherine, ed. Nineteenth-Century American Women Learn to Write. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995.
Hunter, Gordon. What America Reads: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Jack, Belinda. The Woman Reader. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
Jackson, Leon. “The Talking Book and the Talking Book Historian: African American Cultures of Print – the State of the Discipline.” Book History 13 (2010): 292-293.
Johns, Adrian. The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Jones, Sandra E. “Handing on the Creative Spark: Black Women’s Reading Practices, a Speculative History.” PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2005.
Joyce, William L, et al, eds. Printing and Society in Early America. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1983.
Juhasz, Suzanne. Reading from the Heart: Women, Literature, and the Search for True Love. New York: Viking, 1994.
Kaestle, Carl F., ed., Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading Since 1880. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.*
Karl, Alissa G. “ Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Cultures and Consumer Capitalism, 1915-1939.” PhD dissertation, University of Washington, 2005.
Kelley, Mary. Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Kelly, Mary. “Reading Women/Women Reading: The Making of Learned Women in Antebellum America.” Journal of American History 83 (September 1996): 401-424.
Keller, Yvonne. “Was It Right To Love Her Brother’s Wife So Passionately?: Lesbian Pulp Novels and US Lesbian Identity, 1950-1965.” American Quarterly 57:2 (June 2005): 385-410.
Kelley, Mary. “‘The Need of Their Genius’: Women’s Reading and Writing Practices in Early America.” Journal of the Early Republic 28 (Spring 2008): 1–22.
Kett, Joseph F. The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: From Self-Improvement to Adult Education in America, 1750-1990. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.
Knight, Carrie N. “Reading Themselves Sick: Consumption and Women’s Reading in the Early Republic, 1780-1860.” Book History 24:1 (Spring 2021): 37-57.
Kunzel, Regina. “Pulp Fictions and Problem Girls: Reading and Rewriting Single Pregnancy in the Postwar United States.” American Historical Review 100 (December 1995): 1465-1487.
LeFavour, Cree. “Jane Eyre Fever”: Deciphering the Astonishing Popular Success of Charlotte Bronte in Antebellum America.” Book History 7 (2004): 113-141.
Leonard, Thomas C. “News at the Hearth: A Drama of Reading in Nineteenth-Century America.” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 102 (1993): 379-401.
Lindell, Lisa R. “‘So Long as I Can Read’: Farm Women’s Reading Experiences in Depression-Era South Dakota.” Agricultural History 83 (Fall 2009): 503–527.
Linkon, Sherry Lee. “Reading Lind Mania: Print Culture and the Construction of Nineteenth-Century Audiences.” Book History 1 (1998): 94-106.
Lockridge, Kenneth A. Literacy in Colonial New England. New York: Norton, 1974.
Luey, Beth. Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
Lundberg, David, and Henry F. May. “The Enlightened Reader in America.” American Quarterly 28 (Summer 1976): 262-271.
Lyons, Martyn. A History of Reading and Writing in the Western World. New York: Red Globe Press, 2010.
McDowell, Kathleen. “Toward a History Children as Readers, 1890-1930.” Book History 12:1 (2009): 240-165.
McHenry, Elizabeth, and Shirley Brice Heath. “The Literate and the Literary: African-Americans as Writers and Readers, 1830-1940.” Written Communication 11 (1994): 419-444.
McHenry, Elizabeth. Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African-American Literary Societies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.
Machor, James L. “Fiction and Informed Reading in Early Nineteenth Century America.” Nineteenth Century Literature 47:3 (December 1992): 3320-348.
Machor, James L., ed. Readers in History: Nineteenth Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Main, Gloria L. “An Inquiry into When and Why Women Learned to Write in Colonial New England.” Journal of Social History 24 (Spring 1991): 579-589.
Manguel. Alberto. A History of Reading. New York: Viking, 1996.
Meeker, Martin. “A Queer and Contested Medium: The Emergence of Representational Politics in the ‘Golden Age’ of Lesbian Paperbacks, 19551963” Journal of Women’s History 17 (Spring 2005): 16588.
Millner, Michael. Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere. Lebanon: University of New Hampshire Press, 2012.
Monaghan, E. Jennifer. “Reading for the Enslaved, Writing for the Free: Reflections on Liberty and Literacy.” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 108:2 (1998): 309-341.
Monaghan, E. Jennifer. Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.
Moylan, Michele, and Lane Styles, eds. Reading Books: Essays on the Material Text and Literature in America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.
Nagourney, Peter. “Elite, Popular and Mass Literature: What People Really Read.” Journal of Popular Culture 16:1 (Summer 1982): 99-107.
Nord, David Paul. “Working-class Readers: Family, Community, and Reading in Late-Nineteenth Century America.” Communication Research 13 (April 1996): 156-181.
Odrcic, Liana J. “Reading Our Lives: Collective Reading and Cultural Work in 19th and 20th Century Wisconsin Women’s Book Clubs.” PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, 2007.
Pawley, Christine. Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Osage, Iowa, 1860-1900. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.
Perlman, Joel, and Dennis Shirley. “When Did New England Women Acquire Literacy?” William and Mary Quarterly 48 (January 1991): 50-67.
Pettegree, Andrew. The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading. New York: Basic Books, 2023.
Pierce, Jennifer Burek. “What Young Readers Ought to Know: The Successful Selling of Sexual Heath Texts in the Early Twentieth Century.” Book History 14:1 (2011): 110-136.
Radaway, Janice A. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
Radway, Janice. “Reading is Not Eating: Mass-Produced Literature and the Theoretical, Methodological, and Political Consequences of a Metaphor.” Book Research Quarterly 2 (Fall 1986): 7-29.
Reilly, Elizabeth Carroll. “Common and Learned Readers: Shared and Separate Spheres in Mid-Eighteenth Century New England.” PhD dissertation, Boston University, 1994.
Resnick, Daniel, ed. Literacy in Historical Perspective. Washington: Library of Congress, 1983.
Rubin, Joan Shelley. “Repossessing the Cozzens-Macdonald Imbroglio: Middlebrow Authorship, Critical Authority, and Autonomous Readers in Postwar America.” Modern Intellectual History 7 (November 2010): 553–579.
Rubin, Joan Shelley. Cultural Considerations: Essays on Readers, Writers, and Musicians in Postwar America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
Ryan, Barbara, and Amy M. Thomas, eds. Reading Acts: U.S. Readers’ Interactions with Literature, 1800-1950. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002.
Samuel, Lawrence R. Literacy in America: A Cultural History of the Past Century. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.
Scheil, Katherine West. She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012.
Schmidt, Benjamin. “Reading Raleigh’s America: Texts, Books, and Readers in the Early Modern Atlantic World,” in The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550–1624, ed. Peter C. Mancall, 454–88. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Sicherman, Barbara. “Reading and Ambition: M. Carey Thomas and Female Heroism.” American Quarterly 45:1 (March 1993): 73-103.
Sicherman, Barbara. Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Soltow, Lee, and Edward Stevens. The Rise of Literacy and the Common School in the United State: A Socio-economic Analysis to 1870. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Tebbe, Jennifer. “Print and American Culture.” American Quarterly 32:3 (1980): 259-279.
Thompkins, Jane P, ed. Reader-Response Criticism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
Thornton, Tamara Plakins. Handwriting in America: A Cultural History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
Thurston, Carol. The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Towheed, Shafquat, Rosalind Crone, and Katie Halsey, eds. The History of Reading. New York: Routledge, 2010.
Towsey, Mark. Reading History in Britain and America, c. 1750-c.1840. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Travis, Molly Abel. Reading Cultures: The Construction of Readers in the Twentieth Century. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998.
Ulmer, Tisha. “Independent Women: Black Women as Consumers in Literature Written from Slavery to the Harlem Renaissance.” PhD dissertation, City University of New York, 2010.
Unger, Mary I. “The Book Circle: Black Women Readers and Middlebrow Taste in Chicago, 1943-1953.” Reception 11 (2019): 4-20.
Wadsworth, Sarah. In the Company of Books: Literature and Its “Classes” in Nineteenth-Century America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.
Ward, Douglas B. “The Reader as Consumer: Curtis Publishing Company and Its Audience, 1910-1930.” Journalism History 22:2 (Summer 1996): 46-55.
Williams, Abigail. The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.
Wyss, Hilary E. Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Communities in America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.
Zboray, Ronald J. “Antebellum Reading and the Ironies of Technological Innovation.” American Quarterly 40 (1988): 65-82.
Zboray, Ronald J. A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Zboray, Ronald J., and Mary Saracino Zboray. “Books, Reading, and the World of Goods in Antebellum New England.” American Quarterly 48:4 (1996): 587-621.
Zboray, Ronald J., and Mary Saracino Zboray. Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience among Antebellum New Englanders. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.
Books, Publishing, Marketing and Selling Books
Abraham, Mildred K. “The Library of Lady Jean Skipwith: A Book Collection from the Age of Jefferson.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 91:3 (1983): 296-347.
Agnew, Jeremy. The Age of Dimes and Pulps: A History of Sensationalist Literature, 1830-1960. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018.
Amory, Hugh. Bibliography and the Book Trades: Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England. David D. Hall, ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Amory, Hugh, and David D. Hall, eds. A History of the Book in America, Vol. One: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Andersen, Vicki. The Dime Novel in Children’s Literature. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005.
Anderson, Charles B., ed. Bookselling in America and the World. New York: Quadrangle, 1975.
Anderson, Douglas. William Bradford’s Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Ardis, Ann, and Patrick Collier, eds. Transatlantic Print Culture, 1880-1940: Emerging Media, Emerging Modernisms. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Arndt, S. C. “Bringing Books to Baltimore: Tracing Networks of Textual Importation, 1760-1825.” Book History 16:1 (2013): 62-88.
Avery, Gillian. Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books, 1621-1922. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Ballou, Ellen B. The Building of a House: Houghton Mifflin’s Formative Years. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.
Barchas, Janine. Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth Century Novel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Barnes, James J. Authors, Publishers, and Politicians: The Quest for an Anglo-American Copyright Agreement, 1815-1854. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1974.
Barnhill, Georgia Brady. Gems of Art on Paper: Illustrated American Fiction and Poetry, 1785-1885. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021.
Baym, Nina. Woman’s Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and About Women in America, 1820-1870. 2ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Beidler, Philip D. Scriptures for a Generation: What We Were Reading in the ’60s. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
Becnel, Kim. The Rise of Corporate Publishing and its Effects on Authorship in Early Twentieth Century America. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Belliveau, Renee. “These are Not Normal Times: Masculinity and Femininity in Romance Pulps from the Second World War.” Journal of American Culture 44:1 (2021): 22-32.
Benton, Megan. “Too Many Books: Book Ownership and Cultural Identity in the 1920s.” American Quarterly 49:2 (June 1997): 268-297.
Benton, Megan L. Beauty and the Book: Fine Editions and Cultural Distinction in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
Berger, Sherri. “Bookbinding and the Progressive Vision” Chicago History 33 (Fall 2005): 4–31.
Blumenthal, Joseph. The Printed Book in America. Boston: David R. Godine, 1977.
Bobbitt, Mary Reed. A Bibliography of Etiquette Books Published in America before 1900. New York: New York Public Library, 1947.
Bonn, Thomas L. Under Cover: An Illustrated History of American Mass-Market Paperbacks. New York: Penguin, 1982.
Bonn, Thomas L. Heavy Traffic and High Culture: New American Library as Gatekeeper in the Paperback Revolution. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989.
Brier, Evan. A Novel Marketplace: Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
Broaddus, Dorothy C. Genteel Rhetoric: Writing High Culture in Nineteenth-Century Boston. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999.
Brodhead, Richard H. Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Brown, Matthew P. The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Brown, Melanie Ann. “Five-Cent Culture at the ‘University in Print’: Radical Ideology and the Marketplace in E. Haldeman-Julius’s Little Blue Books, 1919–1929.” PhD dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2006.
Bugbee, Bruce Willis. Genesis of American Patent and Copyright Law. Washington DC: Public Affairs Press, 1967.
Burlingame, Roger. Of Making Many Books: A Hundred Years of Reading, Writing, And Publishing. University Park: Penn State University Press, 1996. (reprint of 1946 edition)
Bussy, R. Kenneth. ed. Philadelphia’s Publishers and Printers: An Informal History. Philadelphia: Book Clinic, 1976.
Carroll, Jordan. Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class politics of US Literature. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021.
Casper, Scott E., Joanne D. Chaison, and Jeffrey D. Groves, eds. Perspectives on American Book History. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.
Cassidy, Julie Sinn. “Golden Mean: Commercial Culture, Middle-Class Ideals, and the Little Golden Books.” PhD dissertation, University of Florida, 2008.
Castronovo, David. Beyond the Grey Flannel Suit: Books from the 1950s That Made American Culture. New York: Continuum, 2004.
Cazden, Robert A. A Social History of the German Book Trade in America to the Civil War. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1984.
Chappell, Warren. A Short History of the Printed Word. Revised edition. Port Roberts, WA: Harley and Marks, 1999.
Charvat, William. Literary Publishing in America: 1790-1850. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959.
Churchwell, Sarah, and Thomas Ruys Smith, eds. Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to the Davinci Code. New York: Continuum, 2012.
Clayton Becker, Patty. Books and Libraries in American Society During World War II: Weapons in the War of Ideas. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Clement, Richard W. Books on the Frontier: Print Culture in the American West, 1763-1875. Washington DC: Library of Congress, 2003.
Clements, Amy Root. The Art of Prestige: The Formative Years at Knopf, 1915-1929. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.
Clune, Michael W. American Literature and the Free Market, 1945-2000. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Cody, Michael. Charles Brockden Brown and the Literary Magazine: Cultural Journalism in the Early American Republic. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.
Cohen, Matt. “The History of the Book in New England: The State of the Discipline.” Book History 11 (2008): 301-323.
Cohoon, Lorinda B. Serialized Citizenships: Periodicals, Books, and American Boys, 1840-1911. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006.
Collins, Jim. Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.
Coser, Lewis A., Charles Kadushin, and Walter W. Powell. Books: The Culture and Commerce of Publishing. New York: Basic Books, 1982.
Covington, D.B. The Argus Bookshop: A Memoir. West Cornwall, CT: Tarrydiddle, 1977.
Dardis, Tom. Firebrand: The Life of Horace Liveright. New York: Random House, 1995.
Darnton, Robert. The Case for Books: Past, Present, Future. New York: Public Affairs Press, 2009.
Davidson, Cathy N. Revolution and the World: The Rise of the Novel in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Davidson, Cathy N., ed. Reading in America: Literature & Social History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
Davis, Kenneth C. Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
Denning, Michael. Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America. London: Verso, 1987.
DiCuirci, Lindsay. Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.
Dietrich, Lucas. “At the Dawning of the Twentieth Century: W.E.B. DuBois, A.C. McClurg & Co., and the Early Circulation of The Souls of Black Folk.” Book History 20:1 (2017):307-329.
Doyle Highland, Kristen. “In the Bookstore: The Houses of Appleton and Book Cultures in Antebellum New York City.” Book History 19 (2016): 214-255.
Doyle, Michael. Radical Chapters: Pacifist Bookseller Roy Kepler and the Paperback Revolution. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2012.
Drew, Ned, and Paul Sternberger. By Its Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Dzwonkoski, Peter, ed. American Literary Publishing Houses, 1900-1980: Trade and Paperback. Detroit: Gale Publishing, 1986.
Earle, David M. Re-Covering Modernism: Pulps, Paperbacks, and the Prejudice of Form. Farnham, NY: Ashgate Publishing, 2009.
Earle, David M. “The Pulp New Deal: Audience, Popular Front Politics, and the Pulps as a Socially Democratic Form.” Journal of American Culture 44:1 (2021): 6-21.
Eddy, Jacalyn. Bookwomen: Creating an Empire in Children’s Book Publishing, 1919-1939. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.
Eliot, Simon, and Jonathan Rose, eds. A Companion to the History of the Book, 2 ed. New York: Wiley, 2019.
Ellery, Suzanne C. “The Years of Growth: Best Selling Novels in America, 1918-1927.” Journal of Popular Culture 3:3 (Winter 1969): 527-552.
Enoch, Kurt. “The Paper-Bound Book: Twentieth-Century Publishing Phenomenon.” Library Quarterly 24 (1954): 211-225.
Exman, Eugene. The Brothers Harper: A Unique Publishing Partnership and Its Impact Upton the Cultural Life of America from 1817 to 1853. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
Exman, Eugene. The House of Harper: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Publishing. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.
Finkelstein, David, and Alistair McCleery, eds. The Book History Reader. 2ed. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Finkelstein, David, and Alistair McCleery. An Introduction to Book History. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2013.
Flannery, Katherine Thoms. Feminist Literacies, 1968-1975. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.
Foley, Abram. The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in Postwar America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.
Foote, Stephanie. “Deviant Classics: Pulps and the Making of Lesbian Print Culture.” Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31:1 (Autumn 2005): 169—190.
Franklin, Benjamin V., ed. Boston Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers, 1640-1800. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980.
Freeman, Lewis. A Brief History of Pocket Books, 1939-1967. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967.
Friss, Evan. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore. New York: Viking, 2024.
Fulton, R. E. “Donald A. Wollheim’s Authoritative Universe: Editors, Readers, and the Construction of the Science Fiction Paperback, 1926-1969.” Book History 19 (2016): 349-383.
Fyfe, Aileen. Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820-1860. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Gabriel, Michael R. “The Astonishing Growth of Small Publishers, 1958-1988.” Journal of Popular Culture 24:3 (Winter 1990): 61-68.
Garner, Dwight. Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements. New York: Ecco, 2009.
Gertzman, Jay A. “The Jack Woodford Press: Bestsellers at the Army Base, the Drug Store, and the Tourist Bookstore, 1946-1959.” Journal of Popular Culture 40:1 (2007): 25-48.
Gifford, Justin. Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013.
Gilbert, Ellen D. The House of Holt, 1866-1946: An Editorial History. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1993.
Glass, Loren. Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2013.
Glass, Loren. Rebel Publisher: Grove Press and the Revolution of the Word. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2018.
Goodstore, Tony. The Pulps: Fifty Years of American Pop Culture. New York: Chelsea House, 1976.
Green, Charles Bradley. “Passing Into Print: Walt Whitman and his Publishers.” PhD dissertation, College of William and Mary, 2004.
Green, James. Poor Richard’s Books: An Exhibition of Books Owned by Benjamin Franklin Now on the Shelves of the Library Company of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990.
Greenspan, Ezra. George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2000.
Gunther Brown, Candy. The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Hackett, Alice Payne, and James Henry Burke. 80 Years of Best Sellers. New York: Bowker, 1977.
Hall, David D., and John B. Hench, eds. Needs and Opportunities in the History of the Book: America, 1639-1876. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1987.
Hall, David D. Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.
Harper, Joseph Henry. The House of Harper: A Century of Publishing in Franklin Square. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1912.
Harrington-Lueker, Donna. Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019.
Hart, James D. The Popular Book: A History of America’s Literary Taste. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.
Haugland, Ann. “Book Propaganda: Edward L. Bernays’s 1930 Campaign Against Dollar Books.” Book History 3 (2000): 231-252.
Haugland, Ann. “Books and Radio: Culture and Technology in the 1920s and 1930s.” American Journalism 9:3-4 (1992): 66-83.
Hawley, Elizabeth Haven. “American Publishers of Indecent Books, 1840–1890.” PhD dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005.
Hayes, Kevin J. Folklore and Book Culture. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.
Hefner, Brooks E. Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.
Hochman, Barbara. Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011.
Hoffman, Edwin D. “The Bookshops of New York City, 1743-1948.” New York History 30 (January 1974): 53-65.
Hogan, Kristen. The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
Holt, Henry. Garrulties of an Octogenarian Editor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923.
Howard, Nicole. The Book: The Life Story of a Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Howsam, Leslie. Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Hruschka, John. How Books Came to America: The Rise of the American Book Trade. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012.
Hughes, Justin. “Copyright and Incomplete Historiographies: Of Piracy, Propertization, and Thomas Jefferson.” Southern California Law Review 79 (July 2006): 993–1084.
Jasper, Scott E., Joanne D. Chaison, and Jeffrey D. Groves, eds. Perspectives on Book History: Artifacts and Commentary. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.
Johannsen, Albert. The House of Beadle and Adams and Its Dime and Nickel Novels: The Story of Vanished Literature. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950.
Jones, Daryl E. The Dime Novel Western. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Press, 1978.
Joyce, Donald F. Gatekeepers of Black Culture: Black Owned Book Publishing in the United States, 1817-1981. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983.
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. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Kaiserman, Adam. “The Book and the Box: Postwar Literature and Cultural Regulation in the Age of Television.” PhD dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2011.
Kett, Joseph F., and Patricia A. McClung. Book Culture in Post-Revolutionary Virginia. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1984.
Korda, Michael. Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Best-Seller, 1900-1999. New York: Barnes and Noble, 2001.
Lacy, Tim. “Making a Democratic Culture: The Great Books Idea, Mortimer J. Adler, and Twentieth-Century America.” PhD dissertation, Loyola University, 2006.
Lambert, Josh. “Publishing Jews at Knopf.” Book History 21:1 (2018): 343-369.
Laugesen, Amanda. Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2017.
Lee, Charles. The Hidden Public: The Story of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Garden City: Doubleday, 1958.
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. New York: Bowker, 1952.
Luey, Beth. Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
McFeely, W. Drake. Books That Live: Norton’s First One Hundred Years. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2023.
McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962.
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. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1936.
McParland, Robert. Best Seller: A Century of America’s Favorite Books. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
Madison, Charles A. Book Publishing in America. New York: McGraw Hill, 1966.
Menke, Richard. Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880-1900: Many Inventions. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Meserole, Harrison T. “The Famous Boston Post List: Mid-Nineteenth Century American Best-Sellers.” Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America 52 (1958): 93-110.
Michelson, Bruce. Printer’s Devil: Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
Mylander, Jennifer. “The English in America: National Identity and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1620–1688.” PhD dissertation, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006.
Nelson, Jennifer M. “Separate Shelves: Gender Distinctions and Market Segmentation in American Children’s Publishing, 1860–1960.” PhD dissertation, Emory University, 2010.
Nelson, W. Dale. The Imprint of Alan Swallow: Quality Publishing in the West. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2010.
Nord, David Paul. Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Nord, David Paul, Joan Shelley Rubin, and Michael Schudson, eds. A History of the Book in America, vol. 5: The Enduring Book; Print Culture in Postwar America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Norrell, Robert J. Alex Haley and the Books that Changed a Nation. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016.
Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Metheun, 1983.
Onosaka, Junko. Feminist Revolution in Literacy: Women’s Bookstores in the United States. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Op de Beeck, Nathalie. “Ready-made Antiques: The Picture Book in America, 1924-1944.” Phd Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2003.
Op de Beeck, Nathalie. Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Ostler, Stacey M. The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003.
Parry, Rosalind. The Art of the Reprint: Nineteenth-Century Novels in Twentieth-Century Editions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Pescosolido, Bernice A., Elizabeth Grauerholz, and Melissa A. Milkie. “Culture and Conflict: The Portrayal of Blacks in US Children’s Picture Books Through the Mid- and Late- Twentieth Century.” American Sociological Review 62:3 (June 1997): 443-464.
Petersen, Clarence. The Bantam Story: Thirty Years of Paperback Publishing. New York: Bantam Books, 1975.
Pfitzer, Gregory M. Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840-1920. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.
Poole, Alex H. “As Popular as Pin-Up Girls: The Armed Services Editions, Masculinity, and Middlebrow Print Culture in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States.” Information & Culture 52:4 (2017): 462-486.
Potter, Rachel. “Obscene Modernism and the Trade in Salacious Books.” modernism / modernity 16:1 (January 2009): 87–104.
Powers, Alan. Front Cover: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2001.
Rabinowitz, Paula. American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
Radaway, Janice A. A Feeling for Books: The Book of the Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle Class Desire. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Raven, James. London Booksellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748–1811. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002.
Raven, James, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Reay, Barry, and Nina Attwood. Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-Garde in Mid-Century Paris and New York. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.
Rogers, W.G. Wise Men Fish Here: The Story of Frances Steloff and the Gotham Book Mart. New York: Harcourt, Brace, World, 1965.
Round, Phillip H. Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Rubin, Joan Shelley. “What is the History of the History of Books?” Journal of American History 90:2 (September 2003): 555-575.
Ryan, Susan M. The Moral Economies of American Authorship: Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Satterfield, Jay. The World’s Best Books: Taste, Culture, and the Modern Library. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.
Schick, Frank L. The Paperbound Book in America: The History of Paperbacks and Their European Background. New York: Bowker, 1958.
Schnapp, Jeffrey T., and Adam Michaels. The Electric Information Age Book: McLuhan/ Agel / Fiore and the Experimental Paperback. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012.
Schreuders, Piet. Paperbacks, USA: A Graphic History, 1939-1959. San Diego: Blue Dolphin, 1981.
Schreyer, Alice D. “Copyright and Books in Nineteenth-Century America.” In Getting the Books Out, ed. Michael Hackenberg. Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1987.
Schwed, Peter. Turning the Pages: An Insider’s Story of Simon & Schuster. New York: Macmillan, 1984.
Scribner, Charles, Jr. In the Company of Writers. New York: Scribner’s, 1990.
Server, Lee. Over My Dead Body: The Sensational Age of the American Paperback, 1945-1955. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994.
Sheehan, Donald. This Was Publishing: A Chronicle of the Book Trade in the Gilded Age. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1952.
Sheets, Kevin B. “Antiquity Bound: The Loeb Classical Library as Middlebrow Culture in the Early Twentieth Century.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 4:2 (April 2005): 149-171.
Shove, Raymond. Cheap Book Production in the United States, 1870-1891. Urbana: University of Illinois Library, 1937.
Silverman, Al. The Time of their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, their Editors, and Authors. New York: Truman Talley Books, 2008.
Smith, Steven Carl. “‘Elements of Useful Knowledge’: New York and the National Book Trade in the Early Republic.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 106 (December 2012): 487–538.
Smith, Steven Carl. “The Many Histories of Books in the Early American Republic.” Journal of the Early Republic 37:3 (Fall 2017): 537-553.
Smith, Steven Carl. An Empire in Print: The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic. State College: Penn State University Press, 2017.
Smith, Steven E., Catherine A. Hastedt, and Donald H. Dyal, eds. American Book and Magazine Illustrators to 1920. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998.
Sommerville, Henry S. “Commerce and Culture in the Career of the Permanent Innovative Press: New Directions, Grove Press, and George Braziller Inc.” PhD dissertation, University of Rochester, 2009.
Stein, Harry H. “The Muckraking Book in America, 1946-1973.” Journalism Quarterly 52:2 (1975): 297-303.
Steinroetter, Vanessa Y. “Representations of Readers and Scenes of Reading in American Literature of the Civil War.” PhD dissertation, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2011.
Sterne, Madeline B. Books and Book People in Nineteenth Century America. New York: Bowker, 1978.
Sterne, Madeline B. Publishers for Mass Entertainment in Nineteenth Century America. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980.
Stein, Harry H. “The Muckraking Book in America, 1946-1973.” Journalism Quarterly 52 (Summer 1975): 297-303.
Stokes, Claudia. “Copyrighting American History: International Copyright and the Periodization of the Nineteenth Century.” American Literature 77 (June 2005): 2913-17.
Stone, Albert E. Literary Aftershocks: American Writers, Readers, and the Bomb. New York: Twayne, 1994.
Suarez, Michael F. S.J., and H.R. Woudhuysen, eds. The Book: A Global History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Sullivan, Larry E., and Lydia Cushman Schurman, eds. Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks. New York: Haworth, 1996.
Sutton, Walter. The Western Book Trade: Cincinnati and a Nineteenth-Century Publishing and Book Trade Center. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1961.
Tebbel, John William. Paperback Books: A Pocket History. New York: Pocket Books, 1964.
Tebbel, John. Between Covers: The Rise and Transformation of American Publishing. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Thomas, Amy M. “`There is Nothing so Effective as a Personal Canvass’: Revaluing Nineteenth-Century American Subscription Books” Book History 1 (1998): 140-55.
Thompson, Ralph. American Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 1825-1865. New York: Archon Books, 1967.
Todd, Emily B. “Transatlantic Book Trade and Copyright.” American Literary History 30: 1 (Spring 2018): 145-156.
Tompkins, Jane. West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Travis, Patricia Ann. “Reading Matters: Book Men, Serious Readers, and the Rise of Mass Culture, 1930-1965.” Phd dissertation, Yale University, 1998.
Van Benschoten, Virginia. “Changes in Best Sellers since World War I.” Journal of Popular Culture 1:4 (Spring 1968): 379-388.
Wadsworth, Sarah. In the Company of Books: Literature and its “Classes” in Nineteenth-Century America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.
Ward, Gerald W.R. The American Illustrated Book in the Nineteenth Century. Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, 1987.
Warnock, John E. “Simple Ideas That Changed Printing and Publishing.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 156 (December 2012): 363–378.
Whelehan, Imelda. The Feminist Best-Seller: From Sex and the Single Girl to Sex and the City. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Winckles, Andrew O. “Obscure Women, Obscure Networks, and Women’s Book History.” Huntington Library Quarterly 84:1 (Spring 2021): 113-122.
Winship, Michael. American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Winship, Michael. “The Tragedy of the Book Industry?: Bookstores and Book Distribution in the United States to 1950.” Studies in Bibliography 58 (2007-2008): 145-184.
Wolfe, Gerard R. The House of Appleton. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1981.
Wosh, Peter J. Spreading the Word: The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Zboray, Ronald J, and Mary Saracino Zboray. Literary Dollars and Social Sense: A People’s History of the Mass Market Book. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Zink, Amanda J. Fictions of Western American Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850-1950. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
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. New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1986.
Authors and Literature
Albertine, Susan, ed. A Living of Words: American Women in Print Culture. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.
Bold, Christine. Writers, Plumbers, and Anarchists: The WPA Writers’ Project in Massachusetts. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.
Botshan, Lisa, and Meredeth Goldsmith, eds. Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003.
Boyd, Anne E. “What, Has She Gotten into the Atlantic? Women Writers, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Forming of the American Canon.” American Studies 39 (Fall 1998): 5-36.
Bracha, Oren. “The Ideology of Authorship Revisited: Authors, Markets, and Liberal Values in Early American Copyright.” Yale Law Journal 118 (November 2008): 186–271.
Cane, Aleta F. and Susan Alves, eds., The Only Efficient Instrument: American Women Writers and the Periodical, 1837-1916. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001.
Carby, Hazel. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Cayton, Mary Kupiec. “The Making of an American Prophet: Emerson, His Audience, and the Rise of the Culture Industry in Nineteenth Century America.” American Historical Review 92 (June 1987): 597-620.
Charvat, William. The Profession of Authorship in America1800-1870. ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1968.
Chielens, Edward E., ed. American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Clark, Suzanne. Sentimental Modernism. Women Writers and the Revolution of the Word. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
Cody, Michael. Charles Brockden Brown and the Literary Magazine: Cultural Journalism in the Early American Republic. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.
Cohen, Laura Langer. The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Conrad, Susan P. Perish the Thought: Intellectual Women in Romantic America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Cyganowski, Carol K. Magazine Editors and Professional Authors in Nineteenth Century America. New York: Garland Publishing, 1988.
Davidson, Cathy N. Revolution and the World: The Rise of the Novel in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Delaney, Sean. “Transatlantic Print Culture and the Rise of New England Literature, 1620–1630.” PhD dissertation, Northeastern University, 2013.
Dobson, Joanne. “Reclaiming Sentimental Literature.” American Literature 69 (1997): 263-288.
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. Hamden, CT: Archon, 1991.
Dowling, David. Capital Letters: American Authors and the Antebellum Literary Marketplace. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009.
Dowling, David. The Business of Literary Circles in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Dowling, David. Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace: Writers and Mentors in Nineteenth Century America. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012.
Fine, Richard. Hollywood and the Profession of Authorship, 1928-1940. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1985.
Glass, Loren. Authors, Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880-1980. New York: NYU Press, 2004.
Gilmore, Paul. The Genuine Article: Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
Gingrich, Arnold. Nothing But People: The Early Days at Esquire. New York: Crown, 1971.
Glazener, Nancy. Literature in the Making: A History of U.S. Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Hammill, Faye. Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture Between the Wars. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007.
Harris, Sharon M., ed. American Women Writers to 1800. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Harris, Sharon M., ed. Redefining the Political Novel: American Women Writers, 1797-1901. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.
Hochman, Barbara. Getting at the Author. Re-imagining Books and Reading in the Age of American Realism. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.
Ihara, Rachel. “Novels on the Installment Plan: American Authorship in the Age of Serial Publication, from Stowe to Hemingway.” PhD dissertation, City University of New York, 2007.
Jackson, Leon. The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008.
Jaffe, Aaron. Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Johanningsmeier, Charles. “The Devil, Capitalism, and Frank Norris: Defining the “Reading Field” for Sunday Newspaper Fiction, 1870-1910.” American Periodicals 14:1 (2004): 91-112.
Jordan-Lake, Joy. Whitewashing Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Nineteenth Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005.
Kaplan, Catherine O’Donnell. Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008
Kaplan, Fred. Sacred Tears: Sentimentality in Victorian Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
Laugesen, Amanda. Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2017.
Lund, Michael. America’s Continuing Story: An Introduction to Serial Fiction, 1850-1900. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993.
Marvin, Charles. “Nineteenth-Century Professional Culture and the Development of American Authorship.” PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2005.
Matthews, Kristin. Reading America: Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.
McCall, Laura. “Symmetrical Minds: Literary Men and Women in Antebellum America.” PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, 1988.
McGill, Meredith L. American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
McHenry, Elizabeth. To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.
McLaughlin, Kevin. Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
Newbury, Michael. Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Okker, Patricia. Our Sister Editors: Sarah J. Hale and the Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Women Editors. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995.
Price, Kenneth M., and Susan Belasco Smith. Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995.
Robbins, Sarah. “The Future Good and Great of Our Lands: Republican Mothers, Authors, and Domesticated Literacy in Antebellum New England.” New England Quarterly 75:4 (December 2002): 562-591.
Rose, Mark. Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Samuels, Shirley, ed. The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Scheick, William J. Authority and Female Authorship in Colonial America. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998.
Schorb, Jodi. Reading Prisoners: Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700-1845. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2014.
Sedgwick, Ellery. “Magazines and the Profession of Authorship in the United States, 1840-1900.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 94 (September 2000): 399-425.
Sinche, Bryan. Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2024.
Thompkins, Jane. Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Tonkovich, Nicole. Domesticity With a Difference: The Nonfiction of Catharine Beecher, Sarah J. Hale, Fanny Fern and Margaret Fuller. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.
Wald, Alan M. Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Weber, Ronald. Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America’s Golden Age of Print. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997.
West, James L. American Authors and the Literary Marketplace since 1900. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.
Wilson, Christopher. The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985.
Ziff, Larzer. Writing in the New Nation: Prose, Print, and Politics in the Early United States. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
Libraries and School Books
Augst, Thomas. “The Business of Reading in Nineteenth-Century America: The New York Mercantile Library.” American Quarterly 50:2 (1998): 267-305.
Augst, Thomas, and Wayne Wiegand. Libraries as Agencies of Culture. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
Augst, Thomas, and Kenneth Carpenter, eds. Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.
Battles, David M. The History of Public Library Access for African Americans in the South: Or, Leaving behind the Plow. Lanham: Scarecrow, 2009.
Billman, Carol. “McGuffy’s Readers and Alger’s Fiction: The Gospel of Virtue According to Popular Children’s Literature.” Journal of Popular Culture 11:3 (Winter 1977): 614-619.
Bloomberg, Kristin Mapel. “‘How Shall We Make Beatrice Grow!’: Clara Bewick Colby and the Beatrice Public Library Association in the 1870s.” Nebraska History 92 (Winter 2011): 170–183.
Bobinski, George S. Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.
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Censorship of Books and Literature
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Ford, Hugh. Published in Paris. New York: Pushcart, 1981.
Freyer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. New York: Stein and Day, 1966.
Gamlin, Douglas H. The Tijuana Bible Reader. San Diego: Greenleaf, 1969.
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