Thirty specially written essays, by scholars from a wide range of disciplines, explore a cornucopia of US popular print materials from 1860 to 1920, the period when mass culture exploded into the everyday lives of large swathes of the population.
Professor Christine Bold is a research fellow at the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph in Canada. Her research interests include popular print culture, the memorializing of violence against women, and public funding of the arts. She also teaches Scottish literature.