MLCS 499
Special Topics
Winter 2023
Topics
- European postal history
- Epistolarity
- Soviet and Nazi censorship
- Propaganda
- Subversive correspondence
Readings
- Caplan, Jay. Postal Culture in Europe 1500–1800. Voltaire Foundation, 2016.
- Bazilevich, K. V. The Russian Posts in the XIX Century. Rossica Society of Russian Philately, 1987.
- Rowley, Alison. Open Letters: Russian Popular Culture and the Picture Postcard 1880–1922. University of Toronto Press, 2013.
- Skipton, David M., and Peter A. Michalove. Postal Censorship in Imperial Russia. J. H. Otten, 1989.
- Goldstein, Robert Justin, editor. The War for the Public Mind: Political Censorship in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Greenwood, 2000.
- Moore, Albert Lawrence. Postal Propaganda of the Third Reich. California State University, Dominguez Hills, 2001.
- Jones, Robert W. The Philately of Third Reich Germany 1933–1945. MAR Publishing, 2011.
- Schneider, Gary. The Culture of Epistolarity: Vernacular Letters and Letter Writing in Early Modern England, 1500–1700. University of Delaware Press, 2005.
- Kandaouroff-Deka, Dmitry. Collecting Postal History: Postmarks, Cards, and Covers. Larousse, 1974.
- Carline, Richard. Pictures in the Post: The Story of the Picture Postcard and Its Place in the History of Popular Art. London, 1971.
- Gilroy, Amanda, and Wilhelmus Maria Verhoeven, editors. Epistolary Histories: Letters, Fiction, Culture. University of Virginia Press, 2000.
- Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Schocken Books, 2004.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MLCS 499 B1 Postal Censor Totalitarianism.pdf ↗2023
- MLCS 499 A1: Folklore and Film ↗2015
- MLCS 499 A2: Documenting Communities ↗2015
- MLCS 499 A1 - Advanced Folklore Research ↗2017
- Required readings are uploaded weekly to eClass; listed books are recommended.