LEADER 04578nam 22006375 450 001 9910779363903321 005 20201120025105.0 010 $a1-283-89050-X 010 $a0-8122-0212-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202120 035 $a(CKB)2550000000707625 035 $a(OCoLC)833582362 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10641591 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000818935 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11463151 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000818935 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10844535 035 $a(PQKB)10709396 035 $a(DE-B1597)449071 035 $a(OCoLC)979576176 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202120 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441756 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000707625 100 $a20190708d2012 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWays of Writing $eThe Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England /$fDavid D. Hall 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2012] 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (246 p.) 225 0 $aMaterial Texts 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2208-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [193]-211) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tChapter One: Contingencies of Authorship --$tChapter Two: Not in Print yet Published --$tChapter Three: Social Authorship and the Making of Printed Texts --$tChapter Four: Textures of Social Authorship --$tChapter Five: Between Unity and Sedition --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aWriters 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. 606 $aBook industries and trade$zNew England$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aAuthorship$xSocial aspects$zNew England$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aTransmission of texts$zNew England$xHistory$y17th century 607 $aNew England$xIntellectual life$y17th century 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aBook industries and trade$xHistory 615 0$aAuthorship$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aTransmission of texts$xHistory 676 $a381/.45002097409032 700 $aHall$b David D.$086645 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779363903321 996 $aWays of Writing$93848898 997 $aUNINA