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.