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SoSe 20: Print Capitalism: 1800-1900

Christina Meyer

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ONLINE COURSE ----- This seminar is designed to introduce students to print cultures and their publics in American history between the American Revolution and the end of the nineteenth century. Next to the economic, technological, political, and social environments of nineteenth-century publishing fields (e.g. the book trade, or the periodical press) we will examine a number of (written/drawn) reactions by different social agents – individuals and institutions – to new developments in these fields (as, for instance, the purity crusade and anti-vice campaigns by Anthony Comstock, legal commentary and the proposal of bills, diverse speeches and essays by social critics, novelists, temperance reformers, educators, theologists, legislators, librarians, etc., and caricatures and other forms of illustration). We will tackle such issues as the evolution of the newspaper from partisan papers, the penny press, to the so-called yellow journals, the place of periodicals in the daily lives of Americans, the rise of mass magazines in the 1880s, the evolution and development of printing processes (e.g. engraving, lithography, chromolithography) and the impact on consumption habits, the reading of literature in installments, the exchange of ideas through advertising trade cards, and more. In this class, students are encouraged to develop their skills in visual and verbal analysis and critical reading of primary sources and secondary literature, and to develop strategies for historical research of cultural artifacts. Schließen

12 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Do, 16:00 - 18:00 12 Termine

Do, 23.04.2020 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Prof. Dr. Christina Meyer