Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period illuminates the diverse ways that people in the British regional print trades exerted their agency through interventions in regional and national politics as well as their civic, commercial, and cultural contributions. Works printed in regional communities were a crucial part of developing narratives of local industrial, technological, and ideological progression. By moving away from understanding of print cultures outside of London as ‘provincial’, however, this book argues for a new understanding of ‘region’ as part of a network of places, emphasising opportunities for collaboration and creation that demonstrate the key role of regions within larger communities extending from the nation to the emerging sense of globality in this period. Through investigations of the men and women of the print trades outside of London, this collection casts new light on the strategies of self-representation evident in the work of regional print cultures, as well as their contributions to individual regional identities and national narratives.
Author(s): Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer, Adam James Smith
Series: New Directions in Book History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 280
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: Print Culture, Agency, Regionality
Introduction
Histories and Terms: Regionality, Agency
Scholarly Positions
Regions of the Book
Bibliography
Part I: Yorkshire
Chapter 2: Printed by Alice Broade: The Career of York’s First Female Printer, 1661–1680
Introduction
Women in the Print Trades
Alice Broad in York
Stephen Bulkley’s Return to York
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Historiography, Regionality, and Print Trade Life Writing: The Case of Mr Thomas Gent, Printer, of York
Introduction
Adventures in London and York
Writing Regional History
Features of the Life
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 4: The Newspaper, the Bookshop, and the Radical Society: Joseph Gales’ Hartshead Press and the ‘Reading and Thinking People of Sheffield’
Introduction
Joseph Gales and the Hartshead Press
Concealing Agency: The Register as Reservoir
Masthead as Shop Window: Locke and the Rights of Man
Narrating Posterity, Forging Sheffield
Conclusion
Bibliography
Part II: Circulation and Networks
Chapter 5: Printing, Publishing, and Pocket Book Compiling: Ann Fisher’s Hidden Labour in the Newcastle Book Trade
Introduction
Publishing Poems, Chiefly Pastoral
Making the Memorandum-Book
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Elizabeth Davison and the Circulation of Chapbooks in Early Nineteenth-Century Northumberland
Introduction
Song Chapbooks in Scotland and Northern England
Elizabeth Davison and Wooler
The Davison Chapbook Collection
(i) Songs of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
(ii) ‘National Songs’
(iii) Romantic and Sentimental Lyric Songs, ‘Scotch Songs’
(iv) Stage-Irish and Comic Songs
(v) Local Songs
(vi) Topical Songs and Songs of Social Comment
(vii) Folk Songs and Ballads
Reading the Collection
Appendix: Elizabeth Davison’s Collection of Chapbooks (London, British Library, 11606.aa.22–24)
London, British Library, 11606.aa.22
London, British Library, 11606.aa.23
London, British Library, 11606.aa.24
Bibliography
Part III: Regions and Nations
Chapter 7: ‘The Privilege Granted to the Printer’: The Role of James VI in the Scottish Print Trade 1567–1603
Introduction
Patronage and the Scottish Print Trade
James VI and His Early Printers: Robert Lekprevik and Alexander Arbuthnot
James VI and Thomas Vautrollier
James VI and Henry Charteris
Robert Waldegrave in Scotland 1589–1603
James VI, Robert Waldegrave, and Anglo-Scottish Succession Literature
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 8: Print Agency and Civic Press Identity Across the Border: Commerce and Regional Improvement in the Glasgow Advertiser, Liverpool General Advertiser, and the Urban Directories of Liverpool and Glasgow, 1765–1795
Introduction
Regional Commercial Improvement in John Mennons’ Glasgow Advertiser
Regional Commercial Improvement in John Gore’s Liverpool General Advertiser
A ‘handbook of useful local information’: Mapping Commercial Geographies in Liverpool and Glasgow
Representing Scotland’s National Public Sphere: John Mennons’ Glasgow Almanacks
Bibliography
Part IV: Technology
Chapter 9: For Lack of Letters: Early Typographical Shibboleths of English and Other Foreign Languages
Introduction
The Problem: A Lack of Type
The Solution: Mixing Media
English as a Foreign Language
Kludged Ws as a Shibboleth of English
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 10: A New Type: Sans Serif Typography and Midlands Regional Identity
Introduction
Midlands Jobbing Printers and Population Growth
The Political Printing of Hudson & Son
Instructional Printing
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 11: Afterword
Extending Agency
Impressions of Place
The Future of Regional Print Histories
Bibliography
Index
