Leckie 2015

Leckie, Barbara. “ON PRINT CULTURE: MEDIATION, PRACTICE, POLITICS, KNOWLEDGE.” Victorian Literature and Culture 43.4 (2015): 895–907. Web.

• 895: Book history is a new field with relatively clear demarcations, whereas print culture includes book history and so much else. If book history leans toward (but is not defined by) material culture and print culture leans toward (but is not defined by) political culture, there is no question that print culture also embraces material culture. Indeed, there is no question that print culture gains its energy, in part, from the very "communications circuit" -- Darnton's oft-cited phrase -- that book history embraces.
  • So, book history : material culture :: print culture : political culture?
• 896: ...Chartier identifies the nineteenth century itself as "the age of the second revolution of the book"
  • in intro to The Culture of Print: Power, and the Uses of Print in Early Modern Europe. Princeton, 1989.
• 897: The broad strokes I have sketched in here pertain more to periodical and newspaper culture than to book culture and contribute to two distinctive features of print culture as it relates to the press: its capacity to shape publics and counter-publics and, related to this point, its role in the organization of knowledge. In addition to communicating and producing knowledge, periodical and newspaper culture also defined new forms of knowledge - fragmented, patchwork, non-linear, immediate - that are discussed in many of the books under review here.
• 898: theoretical indebtedness of book history field to Habermas, Benedict Anderson, and Pierre Bourdieu in particular
• 899: By contrast to the 1830s and 40s, however, Miller illustrates [In Slow Print] that by the 1880s and 90s writers were less sanguine about the benefits of mass circulation and mass culture.
  • this focus on delineating sub-periods within the Victorian period is underdone