Studies in Ephemera

The book offers new perspectives on works that were central to the visual and literary culture of the Anglo-American world—ephemeral print—but which have received little scholarly attention in the past.

Kevin D. Murphy is professor and executive officer in the Ph.D. Program in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill,Maine: Commerce, Culture, and Communityon the Eastern Frontier (2010), as well as articles on nineteenth- and twentieth century subjects in the Journal of theSociety of Architectural Historians, the Winterthur Portfolio, and the Journal ofUrban History. Sally O'Driscoll is teaches English at Fairfield University. Her work on eighteenth-century literature and culture has appeared in such journals as Signs, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, and Eighteenth-Century: Theory andInterpretation.

Illustrations Acknowledgments 1Introduction. "Fugitive Pieces" and "Gaudy Books:" Textual, Historical, and Visual Interpretations of Ephemera in the Long Eighteenth Century Kevin D. Murphy and Sally O'Driscoll Part I: Definitions and Categorizations 2Of Grubs and Other Insects: Constructing the Categories of "Ephemera" and "Literature" in Eighteenth-Century British Writing Paula McDowell 3Digitizing Ephemera and Its Discontents: EBBA's Quest to Capture the Protean Broadside Ballad Patricia Fumerton 4What Gets Printed from Oral Tradition: Anna Gordon's Ephemeral Ballads Ruth Perry 5Approaches to Ephemera: Scottish Broadsides, 1679-1746 Adam Fox 6Ephemera at the American Antiquarian Society: Perspectives on Commercial Life in the Long Eighteenth Century Georgia Barnhill Part II: Text and Image 7Making Sense of Broadside Ballad Illustrations in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Alexandra Franklin 8"A Battleground Around the Crime:" The Visuality of Execution Ephemera and Its Cultural Significances in Late Seventeenth-Century England Tara Burk 9From "The Easter Wedding" to "The Frantick Lover:" The Repeated Woodcut and Its Shifting Roles Theodore Barrow 10What Kind of Man Do the Clothes Make? Print Culture and the Meanings of Macaroni Effeminacy Sally O'Driscoll Bibliography Index About the Contributors