Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840-1920
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Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840-1920 by Gregory M Pfitzer
Explores how the emergence of a new literary marketplace in the mid-nineteenth century affected the study of history in America. In an effort to illuminate the cultural conditions for this boom, this book focuses on the business of book making and book promotion. It analyzes the subscription sales techniques of book agents.
This is a compelling work of intellectual and cultural history, one that uses the form of individual extended biographies of several major popular historians of the nineteenth century to recover a book world that we rarely examine closely... Pfitzer is an excellent cultural historian. - Alice Fahs, author of The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and the South, 1861-1865
Professor of American studies at Skidmore College, GREGORY M. PFITZER is author of Picturing the Past: Illustrated Histories and the American Imagination, 1840-1900.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781558496255 |
| ISBN 10 | 1558496254 |
| Title | Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840-1920 |
| Author | Gregory M Pfitzer |
| Series | Studies In Print Culture And The History Of The Book |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Massachusetts Press |
| Year published | 2008-02-06 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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