Local Americanists: Ellen Gruber Garvey, "American Scrapbooks and Book History"
Local Americanists: Ellen Gruber Garvey, "American Scrapbooks and Book History"
Nineteenth-century scrapbook makers often repurposed existing books to create their newspaper clipping scrapbooks. They covered over ledgers, free books, sermon books, and even bibles with their own choice of newspaper clippings. They created their own works of history, literary anthologies, and complex records of grief and allegiance as they clipped and pasted the newspaper. A complex dialog resulted between the printed book and the scrapbook maker's intervention. Ellen Gruber Garvey's talk will consider the intersecting circuits of recirculation engaged by this practice, and the ways it engaged (or hijacked) the prestige of the bound book.
Ellen Gruber Garvey is Professor of English at New Jersey City University.
Publications include Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance (Oxford University Press, 2012) and The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture (Oxford University Press, 1996). With Jacqueline Ellis of Women's and Gender Studies, she edits the journal Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. She is past President of the New York Metro American Studies Association and the Research Society for American Periodicals, whose website she initiated.
Nineteenth-century scrapbook makers often repurposed existing books to create their newspaper clipping scrapbooks. They covered over ledgers, free books, sermon books, and even bibles with their own choice of newspaper clippings. They created their own works of history, literary anthologies, and complex records of grief and allegiance as they clipped and pasted the newspaper. A complex dialog resulted between the printed book and the scrapbook maker's intervention. Ellen Gruber Garvey's talk will consider the intersecting circuits of recirculation engaged by this practice, and the ways it engaged (or hijacked) the prestige of the bound book.
Ellen Gruber Garvey is Professor of English at New Jersey City University.
Publications include Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance (Oxford University Press, 2012) and The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture (Oxford University Press, 1996). With Jacqueline Ellis of Women's and Gender Studies, she edits the journal Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. She is past President of the New York Metro American Studies Association and the Research Society for American Periodicals, whose website she initiated.
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