Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England 9780812222081

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Автор: David D. Hall
Название: Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England
ISBN: 9780812222081
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Литературоведение: с 1500 до 1800 г.

ISBN-10: 0812222083
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 248
Вес: 0.27 кг.
Дата издания: 05.03.2012
Серия: Material texts
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 6 illus.
Размер: 226 x 152 x 23
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Ключевые слова: History of the Americas, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775),LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Подзаголовок: The practice and politics of text-making in seventeenth-century new england
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Поставляется из: Англии
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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.

Дополнительное описание:

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

Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England, David D. Hall