Studies in American Popular History and Culture

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1. Media and the Creation of Babe Ruth

   By Patrick Adam Trimble

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Babe Ruth is among the most lasting of American icons. A baseball player who emerged from the sports pages of the Jazz Age, he has become one of the dominant symbols of traditional cultural values, nationalism, and masculine identity. His is a media persona that has changed drastically over the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789–1919

   By Amy Dunham Strand

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book demonstrates how gender arose in passionate discussions about language to address concerns about national identity and national citizenship elicited by...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

   By Mary McCartin Wearn

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Returning to a foundational moment in the history of the American family, Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how various authors of the period represented the maternal role – an office that came to a new, social prominence at the end of the eighteenth century....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe

   By Jonathan Hartmann

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of the greatest masters and most fascinating figures of the American literary world. However, an examination of Poe's essays and criticism throughout his prose publishing career (1831-1849) reveals that the author himself played a vital role in the creation...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
5. The Struggle for Free Speech in the United States, 1872-1915

   Edward Bliss Foote, Edward Bond Foote, and Anti-Comstock Operations

   By Janice Ruth Wood

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Passed in 1873, the Comstock Act banned 'obscene' materials from the mail without defining obscenity, leaving it open to interpretation by courts that were hostile to free speech. Literature that reflected changing attitudes toward sexuality, religion, and social institutions fell victim to the...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century

   By Holly Berkley Fletcher

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   During the nineteenth century, the American temperance movement underwent a visible, gendered shift in its leadership as it evolved from a male-led movement to one dominated by the women. However, this transition of leadership masked the complexity and diversity of the temperance movement. Through...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
7. Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City

   The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital

   By Robert Bennett

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyzes how literary movements such as the Beat Generation, the New York poets and Black Arts Moment criticized the spatial restructuring of post-WWII New York City....

   Published June 19th 2011 by Routledge
8. Lotteries in Colonial America

   By Neal Millikan

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Lotteries in Colonial America explores lotteries in England and the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From the founding of Jamestown to the financing of the American Revolution, lotteries played an important role in the economic life of the colonies. Lotteries provided...

   Published April 10th 2011 by Routledge
9. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

   African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State

   By Michael Stancliff

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   A prominent early feminist, abolitionist, and civil rights advocate, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper wrote and spoke across genres and reform platforms during the turbulent second half of the nineteenth century. Her invention of a new commonplace language of moral character drew on the persuasive and...

   Published August 2nd 2010 by Routledge
10. Feminist Revolution in Literacy

    Women's Bookstores in the United States

    By Junko Onosaka

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    This book examines the history of women's bookstores in the US from the 1970s to the 1990s. It establishes that women's bookstores played an important role in feminism by enabling the dissemination of women's voices and thereby helping to sustain and enrich the women's movement. They improved...

    Published April 7th 2010 by Routledge