Writing with Scissors American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance

Name: Writing with Scissors American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance
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ISBN: 9780199927692

ISBN-10: 0199927693

ISBN-13: 9780199927692

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ellen Gruber Garvey

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Scrapbooks have been around since printed matter began to flow into the lives of ordinary people, a flow that became an ocean in nineteenth-century America. Though libraries can show us the vast archive--literally thousands of dailies, weeklies, monthlies, quarterlies, and annuals were flooding the public once mass-circulation was common--we have little knowledge of what, and particularly how people read.Writing with Scissorsfollows swimmers through that first ocean of print. We know that thousands of people were making meaning out of the swirl of paper that engulfed them. Ordinary readers processed the materials around them, selected choice examples, and created book-like collections that…

Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.21" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Reuse, Recycle, Recirculate: Scrapbooks Remake Value



Mark Twain's Scrapbook Innovations



Civil War Scrapbooks: Newspaper and Nation



Alternative Histories in African American Scrapbooks



Strategic Scrapbooks: Activist Women's Clipping and Self-Creation



Scrapbook as Archive, Scrapbooks in Archives



The Afterlife of the Nineteenth-Century Scrapbook: Managing Data and Information


Notes


Index