Title: Purifying America
Subtitle: women, cultural reform, and pro-censorship activism, 1873-1933
First published: 1997
Description: James Sullivan presents a brief history of American poetry broadsides from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. He then explores the extensive use of the broadside during one era, the 1960s, showing how it refigured the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, and others and situating it for specific cultural uses within the social and political struggles of the times.

Sullivan's introduction lays out the project's theoretical groundwork in the cultural studies movement and surveys the history of the broadside in North America since the advent of printing.
Subjects: Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Women social reformers, Popular culture, History, Censorship, Moral conditions, Moral and ethical aspects of Popular culture, Literature publishing, Politics and literature, Broadsides, Literature and society, Underground press publications, History and criticism, Civilization, American poetry, Canon (Literature), American Folk poetry, Underground press, Popular culture, united states, United states, moral conditions, American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century, Broadsides, history and criticism, Moral and ethical aspects
Places: United States
LC classification: HQ1419 .P27 1997