A conversation with Madeline Zehnder about pocket-sized soldier’s books, the biopolitical mobilization of format and narratives of control and emancipation
In this episode, we talk to literary scholar Madeline Zehnder about her research on the relationship between pocket-sized print formats and the management of soldiers during the U.S. Civil War. We learn what soldiers read during their downtime and how print material circulated in nineteenth-century America. We also discuss how publisher choices about print format intersected with military and…