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Noonan, Mark J.

 
9781009700184: Revolutionary Ink: New York Printers and the Promise of Democracy, 1693–1804

Synopsis

In Revolutionary Ink, Mark J. Noonan explores the careers of New York printers whose presses disseminated Enlightenment ideals that fueled the American Revolution and framed the political debates of the early republic. Long overshadowed by the celebrated authors whose works they produced, printers William Bradford, John Peter Zenger, James Parker, Thomas Greenleaf and others helmed presses that provoked civic engagement, cultivated an appreciation for the arts and sciences, and defended press liberty. The book also examines the equally revolutionary work of their wives, who assisted with and sometimes ran their husband's presses. Throughout the narrative, Noonan addresses the discrepancy between revolutionary rhetoric and practice, and argues that to grasp New York's early print history is to confront the paradox of the Anglo-American Enlightenment: its profound advancements alongside the denial of universal human rights.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mark J. Noonan is Professor of English at New York City College of Technology, CUNY. He is the author of Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870–1893 and former President of The Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP). In 2015 and 2020, he directed the NEH summer institute, 'City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press.'

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