New Directions in Print Culture Studies: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture

315 Pages·2022·13.368 MB·English

by  Jesse W. Schwartz (editor), Daniel Worden (editor)

New Directions in Print Culture Studies

New Directions in Print Culture
Studies
Archives, Materiality, and Modern
American Culture
Edited by
Jesse W. Schwartz and Daniel Worden
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Contents
List of Figures vii
Acknowledgments x
Introduction: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture,
Jesse W. Schwartz and Daniel Worden 1
Part One Print Culture’s Pasts and Presents
1 Story-Paper Origins in the United States: The Unknown Public and
The New York Ledger, Ayendy Bonifacio 23
2 “And They Think A Strike Is War”: John Reed, Metropolitan Magazine,
and Print-Socialism Beyond Borders, Jesse W. Schwartz 41
3 Laying the Type of Revolution: Historicizing US Feminism in and
through Print Culture, Agatha Beins 63
4 The Instant Classic in the Age of Digital Print Culture: Claude
McKay’s Romance in Marseille, Gary Edward Holcomb 81
5 The Real Productivity: Creative Refusal and Cultish Tendencies in
Online Print Journal Communities, Michelle Chihara 97
Part Two Archives, Exhibits, Images, and Sounds of Print Culture
6 Hold Still: Coming Undone Reading Print Culture Like a Work of Art,
Monica Huerta 115
7 Engraving Class: Gender, Race, and the Pictorial Politics of the 1877
General Strike, Justin Rogers-Cooper 139
8 Sounding: Black Print Culture at the Edges of the Black Atlantic,
Kristin Moriah 167
9 “A Traveling Exhibition”: Magazines and the Display and Circulation
of Art in the Americas, Lori Cole 173
vi Contents
10 Comics in the Archive: Approaches to the April 1956 Newsstand,
Rebekah Walker and Daniel Worden 203
11 Icons and Archives: James Baldwin and the Practice of Celebrity,
Robert F. Reid-Pharr 225
Part Three Print Culture Studies in Practice
12 Reimagining Literary History, and Why It Matters Now, Kelley Kreitz 239
13 Anthologizing Alternatives: June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara’s
Publishing Pedagogies, Danica Savonick 257
14 Hybrid Scholarly Publishing Models in a Digital Age, Krystyna Michael,
Jojo Karlin, and Matthew K. Gold 277
Notes on Contributors 292
Index 296
Figures
0.1 Unidentified actor (the “Little Man”), Claudia McNeil, and John Bouie in
the stage production Simply Heavenly, 1957. Photo by Friedman-Abeles
© The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 11
0.2 Scene from the stage production Simply Heavenly, 1957. Photo by
Friedman-Abeles © The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 13
0.3 Afua Richardson’s Orynthia Blue comic book in the series Lovecraft
Country, 2020. © Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved 16
0.4 Afua Richardson’s illustrated atlas in the series Lovecraft Country, 2020.
© Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved 17
1.1 New York Daily Tribune (December 6, 1856) 37
1.2 New York Daily Times (December 6, 1856) 39
2.1 P. Thompson, “Ruins of the Ludlow Tent Colony.” Metropolitan Magazine
(July 1914) 53
2.2 Corona Folding Typewriter advertisement. Metropolitan Magazine
(July 1914) 54
2.3 B. Robinson, “Hospital at Nish.” Metropolitan Magazine (August 1915) 59
2.4 B. Robinson “But for the smoke, it might be part of a Galician town.”
Metropolitan Magazine (January 1917) 61
5.1 Images from Panda Planner (pandaplanner.com) and Bullet Journal
(bulletjournal.com) websites, December 2020 98
5.2 Google Image search results for “Bullet Journal December Spreads,”
December 2020 99
5.3 Rachel Stephen, “what i was doing wrong in my bullet journal,” YouTube
(June 12, 2019). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIy5RnDuIGk 110
6.1 Redeemed in Virginia by Catherine S. Lawrence. Baptized in Brooklyn … .
by Henry Ward Beecher, May 1863. Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence,
a Redeemed Slave Child, 5 years of age, created by Renowden (1863).
Courtesy of Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,
Photographs and Prints Division, Cartes-de-Visite Collection 122
6.2 Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence – a redeemed slave child, 5 years
of age – redeemed in Virginia. c. 1863. Library of Congress Prints and
Photographs Division Washington, DC 127
viii Figures
6.3 Rebecca, An Emancipated Slave from New Orleans (1863), created by
Kimball. Courtesy of Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,
Photographs and Prints Division, Cartes-de-Visite Collection 127
6.4 Rebecca, Charley, and Rosa. c. 1863. Photographed by M. H. Kimball.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington DC 128
6.5 Rebecca, Augusta, and Rosa. c. 1863. Photographed by M. H. Kimball.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington DC 128
6.6 “Oh! How I Love the Old Flag,” Rebecca, a Slave Girl from New Orleans.
c. 1864. Created by Charles Paxon. Library of Congress Prints and
Photographs Division, Washington DC 135
7.1 D. Bendann, “The Great Strike—The Sixth Maryland Regiment Fighting
Its Way Through Baltimore.” Harper’s Weekly (New York) vol. 21, no.
1076 (August 11, 1877) 148
7.2 E.A. Abbey, “The Frenzy, and What Came Of It,” Harper’s Weekly (New
York), vol. 30, no. 1077 (August 18, 1877) 150
7.3 “Pennsylvania—An Armed Mob Marching to the Scene of Action in
Pittsburgh,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (August 4, 1877) 155
7.4 “Rioters Soaping the Track,” reprinted in J.A. Dacus, Annals of the Great
Strikes in the United States (Burt Franklin: New York, 1969), 290 161
7.5 “Women Leading a Mob in Baltimore” in Allan Pinkerton, Strikers,
Communists, Tramps, and Detectives (London: G.W. Carleton & Co.,
1882), 194 162
7.6 “Pennsylvania.—The Railroad Riot at Pittsburgh—The Philadelphia
Militia Firing on the Mob,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper
(August 4, 1877) 164
9.1 “El museo de arte moderno americano,” Forma: Revista de artes plásticas
(Mexico City) vol. 1, no. 3 (1927): 21, featuring Gabriel Fernández
Ledesma, Primera Comunión (First Communion), 1925. Printed with
the permission of Mauricio Bidault Fernández Ledesma 175
9.2 “Arte Nacional: Expocisión de ‘La Casa del Arte,’” “Salón de ‘La Giralda,’”
and “Exposición Pesce Castro,” La Pluma (Montevideo), vol. 2, no. 6
(May 1928): 35. Courtesy of The Library of the University of California,
Berkeley 181
9.3 Delia Demicheli, “Bajorrelieve,” and Guillermo Rodríguez, “Escenas
Camperas,” La Pluma (Montevideo), vol. 2, no. 6 (May 1928): 50.
Courtesy of The Library of the University of California, Berkeley 181
9.4 The “Theatre Number” of The Little Review (New York), vol. 11, no. 2
Figures ix
(Winter 1926). Photo: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale
University 190
9.5 Fernand Léger, Machine Age Exposition Cover (New York:
Little Review, 1927). © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/
ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
Yale University 194
9.6 Th e Bla!, no. 1 (1916). © 2021 Estate of Stuart Davis/Licensed by VAGA
at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY 197
9.7 Spawn, vol. 1, no. 3 (March 1917). © 2021 Estate of Stuart Davis/
Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY 199
10.1 Cover of Detective Comics #230. National Comics Publications, April
1956. Stephen Neil Cooper Synchronic Comic Book Collection. Cary
Graphic Arts Collection, Rochester Institute of Technology Libraries 207
10.2 Cover of Comic Book Marketplace (April 1999). Stephen Neil Cooper
Synchronic Comic Book Collection. Cary Graphic Arts Collection,
Rochester Institute of Technology Libraries. Courtesy of Stephen Neil
Cooper 215
10.3 Comic book genres in April 1956, by percentage. Count of primary and
secondary genres combined for overall percentages. Rebekah Walker.
Rochester Institute of Technology, Spring 2019 218
10.4 Female protagonist costume prototype. Sally Boniecki. Rochester
Institute of Technology, Spring 2019. Used with permission.
sallyjaysparrow.com 221
10.5 Screenshot of color comparison slider between original and digital
reprint. Andrew Lefurge. Rochester Institute of Technology, Spring
2019. Used with permission 222
10.6 Flesch Kincaid Reading Level of books in the Cooper collection. Green
bars represent the spread of the data, and the red line indicates the
grade level of individual stories Jake Sikorski. Rochester Institute of
Technology, Spring 2019. Used with permission 223