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Paper Nationalism: Material Textuality and Communal Affiliation in Early America
- Author(s):
- Jonathan Senchyne (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Group(s):
- LLC 19th-Century American, LLC Early American, TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography
- Subject(s):
- American literature, Mass media--Study and teaching
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- book history, material text, paper, papermaking, print culture, Womens History Month, Media studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6KC9M
- Abstract:
- Theories of the public sphere and of imagined political communities of shared reading have had lasting effects on the theoretical conceptualization of Americanist book history, but they also largely overlook the materiality of texts in ways that early and nineteenth-century American readers and writers did not. This essay reads early and nineteenth-century American texts about paper that show how affiliation and political community could inhere within material texts. Further, it argues that an orientation toward textual materiality can help us reveal publics that are more inclusive of women, nonwhites, and nonelites.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 7 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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