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MLCS 499

Special Topics

3 units

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.
    recommended
  • Bazilevich, K. V. The Russian Posts in the XIX Century. Rossica Society of Russian Philately, 1987.
    recommended
  • Rowley, Alison. Open Letters: Russian Popular Culture and the Picture Postcard 1880–1922. University of Toronto Press, 2013.
    recommended
  • Skipton, David M., and Peter A. Michalove. Postal Censorship in Imperial Russia. J. H. Otten, 1989.
    recommended
  • Goldstein, Robert Justin, editor. The War for the Public Mind: Political Censorship in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Greenwood, 2000.
    recommended
  • Moore, Albert Lawrence. Postal Propaganda of the Third Reich. California State University, Dominguez Hills, 2001.
    recommended
  • Jones, Robert W. The Philately of Third Reich Germany 1933–1945. MAR Publishing, 2011.
    recommended
  • Schneider, Gary. The Culture of Epistolarity: Vernacular Letters and Letter Writing in Early Modern England, 1500–1700. University of Delaware Press, 2005.
    recommended
  • Kandaouroff-Deka, Dmitry. Collecting Postal History: Postmarks, Cards, and Covers. Larousse, 1974.
    recommended
  • Carline, Richard. Pictures in the Post: The Story of the Picture Postcard and Its Place in the History of Popular Art. London, 1971.
    recommended
  • Gilroy, Amanda, and Wilhelmus Maria Verhoeven, editors. Epistolary Histories: Letters, Fiction, Culture. University of Virginia Press, 2000.
    recommended
  • Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Schocken Books, 2004.
    recommended
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