| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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Book Review

Carnival on the Page: Popular Print Media in Antebellum America. By Isabelle Lehuu. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xii, 244 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2521-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4832-8.)

The historical significance of the press and ephemeral literature in antebellum America is a well-studied subject. Contemporary scholars, especially historians, have explored a range of related topics: the rise of the newspaper and its social and cultural significance; the development of a mass readership (male and female); transformations in the form and content of literary production. Some have pondered the political and social consequences of the "new" print media or analyzed the specifics of class and/or gender in the development of antebellum literary culture; others have focused on the varieties and vagaries of representation. Isabelle Lehuu's particular purpose is to evaluate the subject against the conceptual frame of cultural theory and cultural studies—particularly the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Victor Turner. . . .

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