Defining Print Culture for Youth

Sponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, this volume features a selection of ten papers compiled from the Center's second national conference, accompanied by a detailed introduction. Presented by scholars from diverse backgrounds, the essays center on the emerging, interdisciplinary field of print culture. They examine children's literature and related print materials from a cultural perspective and discuss the influence of ideological, political, and material factors on the reader. Moreover, the authors join a cultural debate over the nature of childhood in specific historical periods. About the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America A joint project of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the Center is an interdisciplinary organization devoted to scholarship in American print culture from 1875 to the present.

ANNE LUNDIN is Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison.WAYNE A. WIEGAND is F. Williams Summers Professor, Library and Information Studies, and Professor, American Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee. He has received numerous awards and fellowships.