MMC 2000 Lecture 8 Outline of Last Lecture I Newspapers cont II Book Outline of Current Lecture III Book Current Lecture Colonial and Revolutionary America Mid 17th to late 18th Century During this period because of government control over book only a few books were published and most of them were religious text First press Cambridge Press 1638 First Book The Whole Booke of Psalms 1644 Early bestseller Poor Richard s Almanack 1732 i Short stories ii Poetry iii Weather predictions Printer protest gov t control when they tried to enact the stamp act Printers started to write stories and articles protesting the control of the British government The article includes one like Thomas Paines Common Sense which sold over 120 000 out a population of 400 000 Paine also wrote a pamphlet called The American Crisis Becoming a Mass medium With the invention of the linotype machine and being able to produce 24 miles of paper daily the low cost of printing helped to establish the wide spread production of books during the 1800 s giving birth to novels Early novelist Hawthorne Melville and Twain Beadle Company s dime novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthrone 1850 Herman Meville s Moby Dick 1851 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 1884 Paperbacks Penguin Books and Pocket Books Dime Novels are inexpensive novels that were printed by the Irwin brothers and Erastus beadle Robert De Graff introduced the idea of Paperback books to the public when he brought over the idea from London He found Penguin Books Books today are 60 paperback Books as cultural value Why Censorship Because are sold in single units its allows for more voices to be heard Unlike television shows that are sold as mass media to be shown to the nation as one front books have the freedom to voice ideas and unpopler opinions 1 Books are agents of social and cultural change 2 Books are important cultural repository 3 Books are windows on the past 4 Books are important sources of personal development 5 Books are wonderful sources of entertainment escape and personal reflection
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