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- Book Title
- Ways of Writing
- Publication Name
- Ways of Writing : the Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England
- Title
- Ways of Writing
- Subtitle
- The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century N
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0812222083
- EAN
- 9780812222081
- ISBN
- 9780812222081
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Literary Criticism
- Release Year
- 2012
- Release Date
- 05/03/2012
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Series
- Material Texts
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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Writers abounded in seventeenth-century New England. From the moment of colonization and constantly thereafter, hundreds of people set pen to paper in the course of their lives, some to write letters that others recopied, some to compose sermons as part of their life work as ministers, dozens to attempt verse, and many more to narrate a remarkable experience, provide written testimony to a civil court, participate in a controversy, or keep some sort of records--and of these everyday forms of writing there was no limit. Every colonial writer knew of two different modes of publication, each with its distinctive benefits and limitations. One was to entrust a manuscript to a printer who would set type and impose it on sheets of paper that were bound up into a book. The other was to make handwritten copies or have others make copies, possibly unauthorized. Among the colonists, the terms "publishing" and "book" referred to both of these technologies. Ways of Writing is about the making of texts in the seventeenth century, whether they were fashioned into printed books or circulated in handwritten form. The latter mode of publishing was remarkably common, yet it is much less understood or acknowledged than transmission in print. Indeed, certain writers, including famous ones such as John Winthrop and William Bradford, employed scribal publication almost exclusively; the Antimonian controversy of 1636-38 was carried out by this means until manuscripts relating to the struggle began to be printed in England. Examining printed texts as well as those that were handwritten, David D. Hall explores the practices associated with anonymity, dedications, prefaces, errata, and the like. He also surveys the meaning of authority and authenticity, demonstrating how so many texts were prepared by intermediaries, not by authors, thus contributing to the history of "social" or collaborative authorship. Finally, he considers the political contexts that affected the transmission and publication of many texts, revealing that a space for dissent and criticism was already present in the colonies by the 1640s, a space exploited mainly by scribally published texts.
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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812222083
ISBN-13
9780812222081
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111984779
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Ways of Writing : the Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
Material Texts
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
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Hall's historical research changes our understanding of what a text is as well as the historical reality we can infer from any example of colonial writing. . . . [He] has given scholars of early American literature a great deal of new work to do., "[Hall demonstrates] how many well-worn topics stand to be transformed when literature is imagined as a series of practices and books are engaged as material objects. . . . For students of book history and of early New England, Ways of Writing . . . can and should have profound effects on scholarly ways of thinking."- Church History, [Hall demonstrates] how many well-worn topics stand to be transformed when literature is imagined as a series of practices and books are engaged as material objects. . . . For students of book history and of early New England, Ways of Writing . . . can and should have profound effects on scholarly ways of thinking., "Hall's historical research changes our understanding of what a text is as well as the historical reality we can infer from any example of colonial writing. . . . [He] has given scholars of early American literature a great deal of new work to do."-- American Literature, "[Hall demonstrates] how many well-worn topics stand to be transformed when literature is imagined as a series of practices and books are engaged as material objects. . . . For students of book history and of early New England, Ways of Writing . . . can and should have profound effects on scholarly ways of thinking."-- Church History, "Hall's work . . . complicates and refines our notions of the significance of the individual author and his/her originality in making texts during this period as well as the significance we assign the practices of anonymity. . . . [A] richly detailed and engagingly written study."- American Historical Review, "Hall's historical research changes our understanding of what a text is as well as the historical reality we can infer from any example of colonial writing. . . . [He] has given scholars of early American literature a great deal of new work to do."- American Literature, "Hall's work . . . complicates and refines our notions of the significance of the individual author and his/her originality in making texts during this period as well as the significance we assign the practices of anonymity. . . . [A] richly detailed and engagingly written study."-- American Historical Review, Hall's work . . . complicates and refines our notions of the significance of the individual author and his/her originality in making texts during this period as well as the significance we assign the practices of anonymity. . . . [A] richly detailed and engagingly written study.
Table of Content
Ch. 1. Contingencies of Authorship: The Protestant Vernacular Tradition, the Book Trades, and Technologies of Production Ch. 2. Not in Print yet Published: The Practice of Scribal Publication Ch. 3. Social Authorship and the Making of Printed Texts Ch. 4. Textures of Social Authorship: Case Studies Ch. 5. Between Unity and Sedition: The Practice of Dissent List of Abbreviations Notes Index
Copyright Date
2009
Topic
United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Publishing, Authorship, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), American / General, Books & Reading
Dewey Decimal
381/.45002097409032
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
22
Genre
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
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