Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England PDF
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Ways of Writing .................16861$ $$FM 05-13-0811:50:29 PS PAGEi MATERIAL TEXTS series editors RogerChartier AnthonyGrafton JoanDeJean JaniceRadway JosephFarrell PeterStallybrass Acompletelistofbooksintheseriesisavailablefrom thepublisher. .................16861$ $$FM 05-13-0811:50:29 PS PAGEii Ways of Writing The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England David D. Hall University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia .................16861$ $$FM 05-13-0811:50:30 PS PAGEiii Copyright(cid:2)2008UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress Allrightsreserved.Exceptforbriefquotationsusedforpurposesofrevieworscholarlycitation,none ofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformbyanymeanswithoutwrittenpermissionfromthe publisher. Publishedby UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress Philadelphia,Pennsylvania19104-4112 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaonacid-freepaper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Hall,DavidD. Waysofwriting:thepracticeandpoliticsoftext-makinginseventeenth-centuryNewEngland/ DavidD.Hall. p. cm.—(Materialtexts) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-8122-4102-0(alk.paper) 1.Bookindustriesandtrade—NewEngland—History—17thcentury. 2.Authorship—Social aspects—NewEngland—History—17thcentury. 3.Transmissionoftexts—New England—History—17thcentury. 4.NewEngland—Intellectuallife—17thcentury. I.Title. Z473.H23 2008 381(cid:2).45002097409032—dc22 2008011500 .................16861$ $$FM 05-13-0811:50:30 PS PAGEiv In memory of Roland Andre Delattre sans pareil .................16861$ $$FM 05-13-0811:50:30 PS PAGEv .................16861$ $$FM 05-13-0811:50:30 PS PAGEvi contents preface ix chapter one ContingenciesofAuthorship:TheProtestantVernacularTradition,theBook Trades,andTechnologiesofProduction 1 chapter two NotinPrintyetPublished:ThePracticeofScribalPublication 29 chapter three SocialAuthorshipandtheMakingofPrintedTexts 81 chapter four TexturesofSocialAuthorship:CaseStudies 116 chapter five BetweenUnityandSedition:ThePracticeofDissent 149 list of abbreviations 191 notes 193 index 223 .................16861$ CNTS 05-13-0811:50:33 PS PAGEvii .................16861$ CNTS 05-13-0811:50:33 PS PAGEviii preface The invitation to deliver the Rosenbach lectures at the University of Pennsylvania prompted the writing of this book, a much expanded version ofthethreelecturesIgavetoaninformedandresponsiveaudienceinFebru- ary2007.Thepleasureofbeinginvitedtoparticipateinalongstandingseries was far exceeded by that of spending a week with a thriving community of faculty and students. I thank in particular Peter Stallybrass, the most gener- ousofhosts,andthestaffofspecialcollectionsinVanPeltLibrary,especially JohnPollack,whoundertooktheunenviabletaskof‘‘localarrangements.’’It wasanhonortobeintroducedonsuccessiveafternoonsbythreefriendswho have also been intellectual companions for many years: Robert St. George, Roger Chartier, and James Green; I have acknowledged Roger Chartier in thepastforhisgoodwillandexampleasathinker,butIthankhimagainfor commentsandcitationsheprovidedduringthecourseofthelectures. The book that follows bears some of the marks of social authorship I describeatlengthforthecolonists. Threechaptersweregreatlyimprovedby Lawrence Buell’s astute comments, and I have benefited from the observa- tionsofMatthewBrown,LeahPrice,JamesSimpson,andRogerThompson onotherpartsofthemanuscript.KristinGunsthelpedpreparethecopytext, andLinfordFisherandLydiaWillskyassistedwithsomeoftheresearch.An unexpected boon was the gift from his granddaughter Kim Buell of Sidney Arthur Kinder’s Cambridge Press Title-pages, 1640–1665. The making of my bookhasdependedtoaremarkabledegreeontheeditorialandarchivalskills of the ‘‘antiquarians’’ who, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, editedorbroughtintoprint a hostofseventeenth-centurydocuments,often providing annotations of unusual breadth, as in the unsung John Davis’s notes for his 1826 edition of Nathaniel Morton’s New Englands Memoriall (1669). James Savage, Charles Deane, Samuel G. Drake, Williston Walker (an academic historian), and the many others whose accomplishments filled .................16861$ PREF 05-13-0811:50:38 PS PAGEix
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