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Apr 28, 2024
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ENGL 3348 - History of Print and Digital Culture in America
Credits: 3
An overview of the history of written communications in America from the introduction of the first printing press in the English colonies to the present era of digital and multimedia culture. Moves across four centuries of writing to introduce students from various disciplinary tracks to the sprawling multidiscipline of the history of the book in its basic theoretical, methodological, and practical dimensions. Examines 1) a literary history of the United States; 2) a narrative of the history of the cultural production, dissemination, and consumption of writing - broadly and inclusively defined - in North America; 3) communications issues crucial to American culture, such as literacy, intellectual property, and freedom of speech; and 4) the formation of the institutions (including schools, libraries, bookstores, print shops, publishing houses, and houses of worship), laws (especially copyright and freedom of speech laws), and technologies that have mediated America’s communications history and given rise to American literature, culture, and society. Major topics include the history of American literature; local, regional, and national formation through print; print and race, ethnicity, and gender; the history of authorship, reading, and publishing; the history of journalism; censorship versus freedom of speech; the uses of literacy; the formations of lowbrow, middlebrow, and highbrow culture; and the history of libraries and archives, with and without walls.
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