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The remarkable story of the stylistic, cultural, and technical innovations that drove the surge of comics, caricature, and other print media in 19th-century Europe Taking its title from the 1844 visionary graphic novel by J. J. Grandville, this groundbreaking book explores the invention of print media-including comics, caricature, the illustrated press, illustrated books, and popular prints-tracing their development as well as the aesthetic, political, technological, and cultural issues that shaped them. The explosion of imagery from the late 18th century to the beginning of the 20th exceeded the print production from all previous centuries combined, spurred the growth of the international art market, and encouraged the cross-fertilization of media, subjects, and styles. Patricia Mainardi examines scores of imaginative and innovative prints, focusing on highly experimental moments of discovery, when artists and publishers tested the limits of each new medium, creating visual languages that extend to the comics and graphic novels of today. "Another World" unearths a wealth of visual material, revealing a history of how our image-saturated world came into being, and situating the study of print culture firmly within the context of art history

1. "The workingman's bible" and the making of American socialism -- 2. Charles H. Kerr & Company and the Americanization of Marxian socialism -- 3. Activist readers and American socialists' print culture of dissent -- 4. How the Socialist Party created a print culture of dissent without a party-owned press -- 5. Information management and the Socialist Party's Information Department and Research Bureau -- 6. Annotations on the failure of socialism in America -- 7. Conclusion : what a book cannot do.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. No News Is Good News -- CHAPTER 2. The Black and White Veil -- CHAPTER 3. Living Language -- CHAPTER 4. Measured Revolution -- CHAPTER 5. Enlightenment Beyond Reason -- CHAPTER 6. Free Love, Free Print -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index

Intersection between oral tradition, manuscript, and print cultures in Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish poetry (1789) / Lesa Ní Mhunghaile -- Garbling and jumbling : printing from dictation in eighteenth-century Limerick / Andrew Carpenter -- Lost in translation : reading Keating's Foras feasa ar Éireann, 1635-1847 / Marc Caball -- "And this deponent further sayeth" : orality, print and the 1641 depositions / Marie-Louise Coolahan -- Gaelic texts and English script / Nicholas Williams -- "James Cleland his book" : the library of a small farming family in early nineteenth-century Co. Down / John Moulden -- Reading and orality in early nineteenth-century Ulster poetry : James Orr and his contemporaries / Linde Lunney

This article sets out to explore the emergence of reading and print cultures in Waterford over the period from the opening of the city's Free Public Library to the outbreak of the Second World War in the twentieth century. It is intended to add to the growing body of writing emerging on reading and books in Ireland by honing in on the development of a local reading culture in an era of more democratic access to books, periodicals and other printed matter. By surveying the development of various lending and circulation libraries up to the establishment of the Waterford Free Public Library in 1896 and beyond into the Free State era, the argument will be made that many of the concerns around self-improvement and literacy remained constant despite the shift from member-run libraries to municipal libraries and from Victorian concerns about moral self-improvement to early Irish state concerns about nation-building and Catholic morality in the 1920s and 1930s. The article will also explore the publishing and book trade in the city throughout the same period. This small but significant industry provided employment for some of the very people who were the target of self-improvement and concerns about their ability to consume 'morally dubious' literature.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: A City and its Library -- "Now We Are a City": Portrait of a Boomtown -- 2. "A Magnificent Array of Books": The Origins and Development of the Muncie Public Library -- 3. Cosmopolitan Trends: Print Culture and the Public Library in 1890s Muncie -- Part II: Reading Experiences -- 4. Borrowing Patterns: The Muncie Public Library and its Patrons -- 5. "Bread Sweet as Honey": Reading, Education, and the Public Library

This essay is a study of the woodblock print culture at Khê Hồi temple in Thường Tín district, Hà Tây province (belonging to present day Hà Nội), a temple that is located in the same area as two other temples addressed in this volume (Thắng Nghiêm temple and Phổ Nhân temple). After describing the temple's history and the various Buddhist schools that have influenced Khê Hồi temple, this essay proceeds to describe and analyze the temple's extant woodblock collection (over 700 plates, and many books), which was discovered in 2001. The essay goes on to examine the circulation of books printed from the temple's woodblock collection by means of: (1) comparing the temple's woodblocks with Buddhist texts in the collection of the Institute of Sino-Nôm Studies and (2) examining neighboring temples to determine whether or not they have preserved books printed from Khê Hồi temple's woodblocks. Through analyzing the history of woodblocks and their circulation pertaining to Khê Hồi temple in the context of nineteenth-century Buddhist woodblocks and texts in Northern Vietnam, this essay argues that Buddhism played a preponderant role in the creation and dissemination of printed texts in nineteenth-century Vietnam. During this period, although Buddhist print culture was already quite developed, the circulation of printed texts was largely limited to temples, and had not yet become widespread in secular society or the "public sphere" at large. This would later change during the "Buddhist Revival" of 1920–1945, when printing and print culture had already taken on their modern form.

"The texts that make up postcolonial print cultures are often found outside the archival catalogue, and in lesser-examined repositories such as personal collections, the streets, or appendages to established collections. This volume examines the published and unpublished writing, magazines, pamphlets, paratexts, advertisements, cartoons, radio, and street art that serve as the intellectual forces behind opposition to colonial orders, as meditations on the futures of embryonic nation states, and as visions of new forms of equality. The print cultures examined here are necessarily anti-institutional; they serve as a counterpoint to the colonial archive and, relatedly, to more traditional genres and text formats coming out of large-scale publishers. This means that much of the primary material analyzed in this book has not been scrutinized before. Many of these print productions articulate collective liberation projects with origins in the grassroots. They include debates around the shape of the postcolonial nation and the new state formation that necessarily draw on a diverse and contentious public sphere of opinion. Their rhetoric ranges from the reformist to the revolutionary. Reflecting the diversity, indeed the disorderliness, of postcolonial print cultures this book covers local, national, and transnational cultures from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Its wide-ranging essays offer a nuanced and, taken together, a definitive (though that is not to say comprehensive or systematic) study of a global phenomenon: postcolonial print cultures as a distinct literary field. The chapters recover the efforts of writers, readers and publishers to produce a postcolonialism 'from below', and thereby offer a range of fresh perspectives on the meaning and history of postcolonialism"--

Introduction: material formalism and dynamic materiality -- Play with periodical pagescapes. Henry James experiments with print culture pagescapes in transatlantic periodicals -- Bookish bodies. Reading the body of Boni & Liveright's & Djuna Barnes's A book -- Broken arcs and black super-vaudeville: design and dismemberment in the Boni & Liveright production of Jean Toomer's Cane -- Mixed-media material aesthetics. Reframing the book -- Mixed-media modernism and the book-as-object

Introduction -- Advertising in Ireland 1850-1914. Prologue -- the Irish advertising scene from the 1850s to the 1880s; Advertising and the nation in the Irish revival -- Print culture. The Shan van vocht (1896-1899) and The leader (1900-1936): national identity in advertising; The Sinn féin depot and the selling of Irish sport; The lady of the house (1890-1921): gender, fashion and domesticity; Unionism, advertising, and the Third Home Rule Bill -- "High" culture. Oscar Wilde as editor and writer: aesthetic interventions in fashion and material culture; Consumerism and anti-commercialism: the Yeatses, print culture, and home industry; Advertising in Ireland 1914-1922; Advertising, Ireland, and the Great War -- Coda - from the Armistice to the Saorstsst