TY  - BOOK
AU  - Connolly,James J.
AU  - Collier,Patrick
AU  - Hall,Robert G.
TI  - Print culture histories beyond the metropolis
T2  - Studies in book and print culture
SN  - 9781442650626 (bound)
U1  - 028/.909 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Toronto, Buffalo, London
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - History
KW  - Book industries and trade
KW  - Literature publishing
KW  - Transmission of texts
KW  - Popular literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Popular culture
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history, library studies, and communications, Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis rejects the idea that print culture necessarily spreads outwards from capitals and cosmopolitan cities and focuses attention to how the residents of smaller cities, provincial districts, rural settings, and colonial outposts have produced, disseminated, and read print materials. Too often print media has been represented as an engine of metropolitan modernity. Rather than being the passive recipients of print culture generated in city centres, the inhabitants of provinces and colonies have acted independently, as jobbing printers in provincial Britain, black newspaper proprietors in the West Indies, and library patrons in "Middletown," Indiana, to mention a few examples. This important new book gives us a sophisticated account of how printed materials circulated, a more precise sense of their impact, and a fuller of understanding of how local contexts shaped reading  experiences."--
ER  -