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Writing with Scissors
American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance
Ellen Gruber Garvey
320 pages
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62 illustrations
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235x156mm
978-0-19-992769-2
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Paperback
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29 November 2012
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- Covers scrapbooks in relation to key cultural moments/movements in US history: the Civil War, women's rights, and the Harlem Renaissance
- Offers new understandings of print culture from readers perspectives
- Explores the relationship of scrapbooks and archives
- Traces the connections between scrapbooks, the back number newspaper business, clipping services, and the Internet
- Penned in clear, accessible prose
- Collects over sixty rare and hard-to-find illustrations of unique scrapbooks and the vibrant culture surrounding their creation
Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooksthe ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to farmwomen, abolitionists to Confederates, people cut out and pasted down their reading. Writing with Scissors opens a new window into the feelings and thoughts of ordinary and extraordinary Americans. Like us, nineteenth-century readers spoke back to the media, and treasured what mattered to them.
In this groundbreaking book, Ellen Gruber Garvey reveals a previously unexplored layer of
American popular culture, where the proliferating cheap press touched the lives of activists and mourning parents, and all who yearned for a place in history. Scrapbook makers documented their feelings about momentous public events such as living through the Civil War, mediated through the newspapers. African Americans and women's rights activists collected, concentrated, and critiqued accounts from a press that they did not control to create "unwritten histories" in books they wrote with scissors. Whether scrapbook makers pasted their clippings into blank books, sermon collections, or the pre-gummed scrapbook that Mark Twain invented, they claimed ownership of their reading. They created their own democratic archives.
Writing with Scissors argues that people have long had a
strong personal relationship to media. Like newspaper editors who enthusiastically "scissorized" and reprinted attractive items from other newspapers, scrapbook makers passed their reading along to family and community. This book explains how their scrapbooks underlie our present-day ways of thinking about information, news, and what we do with it.Readership: Scholars of material culture, especially those with a focus on nineteenth-century cultural history.
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Ellen Gruber Garvey, Professor of English, New Jersey City University Ellen Gruber Garvey is Professor of English at the New Jersey City University.
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Introduction
Chapter 1: Reuse, Recycle, Recirculate: Scrapbooks Remake Value
Chapter 2: Mark Twain's Scrapbook Innovations
Chapter 3: Civil War Scrapbooks: Newspaper and Nation
Chapter 4 Alternative Histories in African American Scrapbooks
Chapter 5: Strategic Scrapbooks: Activist Women's Clipping and Self-Creation
Chapter 6: Scrapbook as Archive, Scrapbooks in Archives
Chapter 7: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth-Century Scrapbook
Index
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