1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779363903321

Autore

Hall David D.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]

©2009

ISBN

1-283-89050-X

0-8122-0212-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Collana

Material Texts

Disciplina

381/.45002097409032

Soggetti

Book industries and trade - New England - History - 17th century

Authorship - Social aspects - New England - History - 17th century

Transmission of texts - New England - History - 17th century

New England Intellectual life 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One: Contingencies of Authorship -- Chapter Two: Not in Print yet Published -- Chapter Three: Social Authorship and the Making of Printed Texts -- Chapter Four: Textures of Social Authorship -- Chapter Five: Between Unity and Sedition -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 1640's, a space exploited mainly by scribally published texts.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964289303321

Autore

Fuente Alejandro de la <1963->

Titolo

A nation for all : race, inequality, and politics in twentieth-century Cuba / / Alejandro de la Fuente

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2001

ISBN

979-88-908721-3-5

0-8078-9876-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (466 p.)

Collana

Envisioning Cuba

Disciplina

305.8/0097291

Soggetti

Equality - Cuba - History - 20th century

Race discrimination - Cuba - History - 20th century

Cuba Politics and government 20th century

Cuba Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-436) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: The First Republic, 1902-1933; 1 Racial Order or Racial Democracy?: Race and the Contending Notions of Cubanidad; 2 Electoral Politics; PART II: Inequality, 1900-1950s; 3 The Labor Market; 4 Education and Mobility; PART III: The Second Republic, 1933-1958; 5 A New Cuba?; 6 State and Racial Equality; PART IV: Socialism, 1959-1990s; 7 Building a Nation for All; 8 The Special Period; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba