Similar to the "digital revolution" of the last century, the
colonial and early national periods were a time of improved print
technologies, exploding information, faster communications, and a
fundamental reinventing of publishing and media processes. Between
the early 1700s, when periodical publications struggled, and the
late 1790s, when print media surged ahead, print culture was
radically transformed by a liberal market economy, innovative
printing and papermaking techniques, improved distribution
processes, and higher literacy rates, meaning that information,
particularly in the form of newspapers and magazines, was available
more quickly and widely to people than ever before. These changes
generated new literary genres and new relationships between authors
and their audiences. The study of periodical literature and print
culture in the eighteenth century has provided a more intimate view
into the lives and tastes of early Americans, as well as enabled
researchers to further investigate a plethora of subjects and
discourses having to do with the Atlantic world and the formation
of an American republic. Periodical Literature in
Eighteenth-Century America is a collection of essays that delves
into many of these unique magazines and newspapers and their
intersections as print media, as well as into what these
publications reveal about the cultural, ideological, and literary
issues of the period; the resulting research is interdisciplinary,
combining the fields of history, literature, and cultural studies.
The essays explore many evolving issues in an emerging America:
scientific inquiry, race, ethnicity, gender, and religious belief
all found voice in various early periodicals. The differences
between the pre- and post-Revolutionary periodicals and
performativity are discussed, as are vital immigration, class, and
settlement issues. Political topics, such as the emergence of
democratic institutions and dissent, the formation of early
parties, and the development of regional, national, and
transnational cultural identities are also covered. Using digital
databases and recent poststructural and cultural theories, this
book returns us to the periodicals archive and regenerates the
ideological and discursive landscape of early American literature
in provocative ways; it will be of value to anyone interested in
the crosscurrents of early American history, book history, and
cultural studies. Mark L. Kamrath is associate professor of English
at the University of Central Florida. Sharon M. Harris is Lorraine
Sherley Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University.
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