{"product_id":"9780809335442","title":"Circulating Literacy: Writing Instruction in American Periodicals, 1880-1910","description":"\u003cp\u003eNear the dawn of the twentieth century, more than a million Americans had subscriptions to popular magazines, and many who did not subscribe read the periodicals. Far more men and women were learning advanced literacy through reading these magazines than by attending college. Yet this form of popular literacy has been relatively ignored by scholars, who have focused mainly on academic institutions and formal educational experiences. In \u003ci\u003eCirculating Literacy: Writing Instruction in American Periodicals, 1880-1910,\u003c\/i\u003e author Alicia Brazeau concentrates on the format, circulation, and function of popular and influential periodicals published between 1880 and 1910, including the farming magazines \u003ci\u003eMichigan Farmer\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Ohio Farmer\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMaine Farmer\u003c\/i\u003e, which catered to rural residents, and two women’s magazines, \u003ci\u003eHarper’s Bazar\u003c\/i\u003e and the\u003ci\u003e Ladies’ Home Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, that catered to very different populations of women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrazeau establishes how these magazines shared a common strategy in the construction of literacy identities by connecting a specific identity with a particular set of reading and writing practices. She explores how farm journals were preoccupied with the value of literacy as a tool for shaping community; considers how the \u003ci\u003eJournal \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eBazar\u003c\/i\u003e deployed distinctly different illustrations of literacy values for women; shows how the \u003ci\u003eJournal \u003c\/i\u003eand editor Edward Bok cast women as consumers and sellers of literacy; and looks at the ways in which \u003ci\u003eBazar\u003c\/i\u003e editors urged readers to adopt habits of reading and writing that emphasized communal relationships among women. In \u003ci\u003eCirculating Literacy, \u003c\/i\u003eBrazeau speaks to, and connects, the important topics of rural studies, gender, professionalization, and literacy sponsorship and identity, arguing for the value of the study of periodicals as literacy education tools.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030537060592,"sku":"9780809335442","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780809335442_p0.jpg?v=1763740966","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809335442","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}