Ellen Gruber Garvey

Writing with Scissors

American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance

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Produktbeschreibung

Featuring over fifty rare and hard-to-find illustrations, Writing with Scissors presents a fascinating cultural history of scrapbooks in America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780199927692
• ISBN-10: 0199927693
• Artikelnr.: 35275322

Autorenporträt

Ellen Gruber Garvey is Professor of English at the New Jersey City University.

Inhaltsangabe

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