Book chapter
From the Wharf to the Woods
A Companion to American Literature, pp.411-427
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
04/06/2020
DOI: 10.1002/9781119056157.ch25
Abstract
The story of the circulation of print in America, from colonial times through the early republic, describes a slow movement from a colonial market that functioned primarily as an extension of the English book trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to a nineteenth‐century local culture of print that was distinctly born of the demographic, political, and geographic uniqueness of the new United States. Because of America's unique topography, this trade tended to rely on coastal print hubs and more informal printer “centers” in the interior. Books and newspapers followed inland waterways and post roads in an east–west flow. Overlaying these major print circuits were more informal routes that were forged by English and Native American missionaries who distributed religious works published in England specifically for Africans and Indigenous peoples. By 1820, the circulation of print had begun to trace the borders between emerging social classes.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- From the Wharf to the Woods
- Creators
- Phillip H Round
- Contributors
- Susan Belasco (Editor)Theresa Strouth Gaul (Editor)Linck Johnson (Editor)Michael Soto (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- A Companion to American Literature, pp.411-427
- DOI
- 10.1002/9781119056157.ch25
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; Chichester, UK
- Number of pages
- 17
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/06/2020
- Academic Unit
- English
- Record Identifier
- 9984398720602771
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