FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2020762606> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W2020762606 endingPage "323" @default.
• W2020762606 startingPage "301" @default.
• W2020762606 abstract "The History of the Book in New EnglandThe State of the Discipline Matt Cohen (bio) The region of New England has been fertile ground for the study of what has been termed print culture. Such work has been remarkable for its impact beyond the field of American book history. Work by David D. Hall, Robert A. Gross, Michael Warner, and Cathy N. Davidson, to name just a few, appears in debates in political science, religious studies, and postcolonial theory, in addition to the usual homes to book history, literary and historical studies. David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery's Book History Reader (2001) includes essays by Jane Tompkins on Nathaniel Hawthorne and by E. Jennifer Monaghan on literacy instruction and gender in New England. Studies of New England's media history have also persistently troubled the boundaries of book history, asking definitional questions about literacy, the relationship between orality and literacy, the existence of a public sphere—even the definition of the book and of culture. Institutionally, too, New England has been an epicenter for Anglo-American book studies. The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), founded in 1812 in Worcester, Massachusetts, launched its influential Program for the History of the Book in American Culture in 1983.1 The mulling over of books, society, consciousness, and power has a long pedigree in New England. Two years before he helped found the AAS, Isaiah Thomas, one of the republic's most successful printers, published his History of Printing in America (1810), which is to this day the starting point for most historians of the book in North America. A little over a decade later, Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok (1824) asked its readers to think about the connections among textual media, meaning, and sociopolitical power in colonial New England. Child's audiences are expected to know that Hobo [End Page 301] mok's young heroine, Mary Conant, is in for trouble when she unwraps a package from her lover and finds a prayer book, bound in the utmost elegance of the times, which is ornamented with gold clasps, richly chased; the one representing the head of king Charles, the other the handsome features of his French queen; and the inside of both adorned with the arms of England. Her nonconformist father's lectures on the evils of the Book of Common Prayer and the sins of adornment jar with her lover's romantic binding, inducing a readerly reflection on the place of the physical book in the moral and intellectual worlds.2 Child's work was part of a wave of fictional writing that helped promote a notion that underwrote much of the early attention to New England: In that region and its Puritan culture were to be found the national origins of the United States. Providentially guided on a special path to political self-determination and economic success, it was imagined, the United States was incubated in New England's complex mix of financial ambition, religious perfectionism, and English sociopolitical inheritance. In the wake of decades of American Studies scholarship interrogating this sort of exceptionalism, a host of assumptions embedded in that approach have given way to a new spectrum of questions. Scholars across the humanities have emphasized border crossing, transnational, and transregional approaches. The study of the writing, publishing, distributing, and reading of books remains central to this new research. But if New England is no longer, as Philip Gura puts it, the omphalos of the United States, why organize an essay around its print culture?3 In this essay I will outline the exciting work that has been done to pull New England book history out of its regional comfort zone. But I will also suggest why book historical studies delimited by the region are still productive when performed in ways that attend to the cross-cultural communications environment of colonial New England. Such studies can show how book culture has been used to construct New England as a region, while interrogating the connections between print and region reveals an occluded media sphere that nonetheless gave shape to the history of the New English book. The chronological parameters here are necessarily constrained for lack of space. Even focusing on the..." @default.
• W2020762606 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W2020762606 creator A5078084072 @default.
• W2020762606 date "2008-01-01" @default.
• W2020762606 modified "2023-10-17" @default.
• W2020762606 title "The History of the Book in New England: The State of the Discipline" @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1039352160 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1483897935 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1485903456 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1512064616 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1541431938 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1545072989 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1553415249 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1555988938 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1564766517 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1575643996 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1594637668 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1599269119 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W16960622 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1770581172 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1967902554 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1971044186 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1972396011 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1973418103 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1974081983 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1984181875 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1986579708 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1986968748 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1994201205 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W1996922945 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2002526597 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2003541501 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2004747077 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2006456246 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2006751791 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2009363028 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2010518664 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2011667223 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2020977284 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2026060195 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2029306767 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2030490055 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2031562375 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2034777944 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2036703930 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2037935110 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2042546667 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2045110631 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2052376184 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2053545353 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2054677843 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2058767381 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2064311163 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2067821479 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2070115356 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2072063440 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2078504169 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2089984510 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2091932672 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2093252594 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2107562224 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2109167592 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2120974706 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2128112559 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2129556546 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2136677848 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2141206900 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2141247356 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2150851423 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2152795577 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2163426048 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2166928958 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2169880825 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2269989996 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2292016185 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2309753180 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2313076364 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2315012242 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2315233312 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2315474883 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2318118279 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2323614158 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2326211710 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2327476705 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2334241110 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2460328800 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2489370940 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2562024440 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2593225610 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2618917158 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W2792402547 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W3092735049 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W3158820556 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W569186707 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W579784591 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W580044391 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W581886472 @default.
• W2020762606 cites W582969543 @default.

• next