Bibliography and the Book Trades: Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England (Material Texts)

Most current approaches to the subject assume a British Atlantic that was permeated by the Black, Red, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, and Portuguese Atlantics and that was constituted by the overlapping Atlantic worlds of mariners, pirates, privateers, natural philosophers, government officials, merchants, captives, slaves, convicts, women, and indentured servants, as well as by the transatlantic intercourse of a variety of ethnic, political, and religious communities.

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Though discredited in many ways, this model is not entirely canceled out by the other; books and periodicals were both exported from London and repeatedly reprinted, often in altered forms, elsewhere. However, the first more decentered, multicultural and multidirectional model described above offers more openings for research.

Amory and Hall , Suarez and Turner , Gross and Kelley , and Gillespie and Hadfield are collections of survey-summaries by notable scholars of what was known at the date of publication about the economics and mechanics of the book trade in different parts of the British Atlantic. Most contain, in addition, chapters attaching reading practices to particular genres for instance, schoolbooks or devotional materials or chapters about the choices and practices of particular segments of the reading public.

These surveys still reflect the impact on transatlantic studies of traditional English, Scottish, Irish, and American national histories, with their divergent nation-centered perspectives on the Atlantic world.

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Focusing more narrowly on literary and poetic genres, the essays in Bannet and Manning bring Canadian and European perspectives into dialogue with English, Scottish, and American ones. Two annotated hardcopy bibliographies Heilman and Bissell provide useful but incomplete lists of English literary works containing American and Amerindian characters and scenes, a starting point for thinking about the impact of America on British literature. Amory, Hugh, and David D.

A History of the Book in America. Cambridge University Press, Essays surveying transatlantic book imports, the activities of printers, and scribal publication in each of the American colonies from the 17th century to the Revolution, as known in Includes chapters on reading practices related to schoolbooks, libraries, the learned, and the market, as well as a useful bibliography.

Bannet, Eve Tavor, and Susan Manning, eds. Transatlantic Literary Studies, — Essays by international scholars, tracing a variety of literary and poetic genres back and forth across the Atlantic between the 17th and early 19th centuries and demonstrating a variety of methodological approaches.

Bibliography and the Book Trades

Includes a select bibliography. Yale University Press, Contains an extensive bibliography of English representations of American Indians. Gillespie, Raymond and Andrew Hadfield. The Irish Book in English, — Oxford University Press, Contains chapters on Irish print culture, the Irish printing trade and Irish libraries, as well as on various types of publication political, historical, literary, scientific, theatrical , and source material for further research.

Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, — University of North Carolina Press, The thesis overall is that print was successfully used in the early Republic to create a united and informed citizenry.

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Includes chapters on the dominant print genres in America during this period and on diverse reading communities Anglo, German, African American, Indian, religious, in schools, in universities, etc. America in English Fiction, — Louisiana State University Press, Product description Review "These dense essays. Read with care, they offer us insights and methods of investigation that we ignore at our peril.

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