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• Paintings From Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760-1900 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Richard D. Altick (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• The Origins of Popular Superstitions and Customs (1910), by T. Sharper Knowlson (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Print, Publicity and Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2016), by Jon Mee
  • PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Savage Visit: New World People and Popular Imperial Culture in Britain, 1701-1795 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Kate Fullagar (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)

• Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle (c2008), by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (HTML at Michigan)

• The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection With the Calendar (London and Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1869), by Robert Chambers (HTML at thebookofdays.com)
• Chambers's Book of Days (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co, 1879), by Robert Chambers (page images at Wisconsin)

• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Rebecca Stern (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dickens, Reade, and Collins, Sensation Novelists: A Study in the Conditions and Theories of Novel Writing in Victorian England (New York: Columbia University Press, 1919), by Walter Clarke Phillips
  • HTML at github.io
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Modern Street Ballads (1888), ed. by John Ashton (HTML with commentary at staggernation.com)

• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (enlarged edition, 1903), by Joseph Strutt and J. Charles Cox (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (new edition; London: Printed for W. Reeves, 1830), by Joseph Strutt and William Hone (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004), by Barry J. Faulk (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

• The Denham Tracts: A Collection of Folklore, Reprinted From the Original Tracts and Pamphlets Printed by Denham Between 1846 and 1859 (2 volumes (Publications of the Folk-Lore Society v29 and v35); 1892-1895), by Michael Aislabie Denham, ed. by James Hardy
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Windsor Magazine (partial serial archives)

• The Dawn of Juvenile Literature in England (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1925), by Gesiena Andreae (page images at delpher.nl)

• Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Cultural Gutter (book collection of articles from the website; Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2010), by Carol Borden, Ian Driscoll, Jim Munroe, James Schellenberg, and Chris Szego (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006), by Clare Birchall (PDF with commentary at a oapen.org)
• Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2016), by Anthony Lioi (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury)
• Missions for Thoughtful Gamers (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Andrew Cutting (multiple formats with commentary at CMU)
• Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Harry Justin Elam and Kennell A. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plenitude (electronic edition 2.0), by Grant David McCracken (HTML at cultureby.com)

• Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2010), ed. by Anne-Maria Makhulu, Beth A. Buggenhagen, and Stephen Jackson (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture (2010), ed. by Bart Beaty, Derek Briton, Gloria Filax, and Rebecca Sullivan (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Mainstream Culture Refocused: Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-Era China (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press of Hawaii, c2010), by Zhong Xueping (PDF with commentary at Hawaii Open)

• Grey (San Francisco: Night Shade Books, c2007), by Jon Armstrong (HTML at nightshadebooks.com)

• Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), ed. by Katherine Pence and Paul Betts (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1983), by Patrick Brantlinger
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• English As We Speak It in Ireland (London: Longmans, Green and Co.,; Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son, 1910), by P. W. Joyce (Gutenberg text)

• Imagination Beyond Nation: Latin American Popular Culture (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), ed. by Eva Paulino Bueno and Terry Caesar (searchable page images at Pitt)

• Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), ed. by Walter Armbrust (HTML at UC Press)

• Spin (online issues from 1985-2012) (partial serial archives)
• Avant-Garde (1968-1971) (full serial archives)
• Transformative Works and Cultures (2008-) (full serial archives)
• The Bookman (New York, 1895-1933) (partial serial archives)
• Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture (full serial archives)

• Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1983), by Patrick Brantlinger
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Inventing High and Low: Literature, Mass Culture, and Uneven Modernity in Spain (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Stephanie Sieburth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pop Culture Versus Real America (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2010), ed. by Jonathan Margolis, Martin J. Manning, and Megan A. Wong (PDF at usembassy.gov)
• Capital at the Brink: Overcoming the Destructive Legacies of Neoliberalism (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2014), ed. by Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Uppinder Mehan (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays (c2006), by Thomas Sowell (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)
• Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Harry Justin Elam and Kennell A. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Search of American Jewish Culture (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, c1999), by Stephen J. Whitfield (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)

• Parodies of Ownership: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law (c2009), by Richard L. Schur (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• The Cowboy Legend: Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranching Frontier (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2015), by John Jennings (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Rebecca Stern (PDF at Ohio State)

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