Syllabus

Welcome and Introductions,
Antiquarian Hall:
Joanne Chaison, Michael Warner, Peter Stallybrass.

Exhibition of books and dissertations in American book history researched at AAS, Joanne Chaison, AAS research librarian

morning seminar: New Histories of Reading.
(Note: coffee available during each morning session at 10:00 a.m.)

Readings:

• Elizabeth Carroll Reilly and David D. Hall, "Modalities of Reading," from A History of the Book in America, volume 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, pp. 404-411.
• Michael Warner, "Uncritical Reading," from Jane Gallop, ed., Polemics: Critical and Uncritical (Routledge, 2004).
• Giulielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier, eds., A History of Reading in the West (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1999): Intro, chapters 7, 10, 11.
• Peter Stallybrass, "Books and Scrolls: Navigating the Bible," in Jennifer Andersen and Elizabeth Sauer, eds., Books and Readers in Early Modern England (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), pp. 42-79.
• Anthony Grafton and Lisa Jardine, "'Studied for Action': How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," Past and Present 129 (1990): 30-78.
• Richard Wendorf, "Abandoning the capital in eighteenth-century London," in Kevin Sharpe and Steven Zwicker, eds., Religion, Society and Politics in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2003), pp. 72-98.

recommended additional readings:

• Paul Griffiths, from Religious Reading: The Place of Reading in the Practice of Religion (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999), pp. 77-108.
• Daniel Boyarin, "Placing Reading: Ancient Israel and Medieval Europe," in Jonathan Boyarin, ed., The Ethnography of Reading (Univ. of California Press, 1993), 10-37.
• David D. Hall, "Learned Culture in the Eighteenth Century," in ed. Hugh Amory and David D. Hall, A History of the Book in America, vol.1, "The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 411-433.
• Leah Price, The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 1-42
• Robert B. Winans, "Bibliography and the Cultural Historian: Notes on the Eighteenth-Century Novel," in ed. William L. Joyce, David D. Hall, Richard D. Brown, and John B. Hench et al, Printing and Society in Early America (Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1983), pp. 174-85.
• Eric Jager, The Book of the Heart (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), pp. 1-64.

afternoon workshop: Cultures of the Bible
presentation by Michael Warner and Peter Stallybrass.

Readings:

• Psalms 23, 51, 107 and 137: including psalm translations by Jane Colman Turell, Joseph Addison, Isaac Watts, Lemuel Hopkins, Timothy Dwight, and others.
• Ezekiel 11:18-21 and 36:24-27; 2 Corinthians 3:1-18; Luke 4:16-20.
• "B" and "H" in The New-England Primer.
• "Preface," The Whole Booke of Psalmes.
• Ian Green, "'Puritan Prayer Books' and 'Geneva Bibles,'" Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 11 (1998), 314-50.
• Ian Green, Print and Protestantism in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 42-100.
• Hugh Amory, "'Gods Altar Needs Not Our Pollishings': Revisiting the Bay Psalm Book," from Bibliography and the Book Trades (Penn, 2005), 34-57.
• Ramie Targoff, "The Bay Psalm Book: From Common Prayer to Common Poems," from Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England (Chicago, 2001), 118-30.
• Scott Mandelbrote, "The English Bible and its Readers in the Eighteenth Century," in Isabel Rivers, ed., Books and Their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays (Continuum, 2001), 35-78.

conclusion.

recommended additional readings:

• John Standish, Discourse where it is debated whether it be expedient that the Scriptures should be in English for al men to read at wyll (London, 1544) [excerpts]
• William Kilburne, Dangerous Errors in Several Late Printed Bibles to the Great Scandal and Corruption of Sound and True Religion (London, 1659).
• Jonathan Sheehan, The Enlightenment Bible (Princeton, 2005), chapters 1, 4, and 6; pp. 1-25, 93-117, 148-81.
• Hannibal Hamlin, introduction and chapter 1 from Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge, 2004).
• William J. Gilmore, Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780-1835 (University of Tennessee Press, 1989), 254-343.
• Alex Walsham, "Impolitic Pictures: the Iconography of Protestant Nationhood," Studies in Church History 33 (1997).

Further Bibliography

• A. S. Herbert, Historical Catalogue of Printed Editions of the English Bible 1525-1961 (New York: The American Bible Society, 1968).
• S. L. Greenslade (ed.), The Cambridge History of the Bible: The West from the Reformation to the Present Day (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963).
• Nathan O. Hatch and Mark A. Noll, The Bible in America: Essays in Cultural History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982).
• Peter J. Wosh, Spreading the Word: The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America (Cornell University Press, 1994).
• Leslie Howsam, Cheap Bibles: nineteenth-century publishing and the British and Foreign Bible Society.

morning seminar: An Evangelical Public Sphere?

• Harry S. Stout, "Religion, Communications, and the Ideological Origins of the American Revolution."
• Frank Lambert, from Inventing the Great Awakening (Princeton, 1999), pp. 22-179.
• Michael Warner, "Publics and Counterpublics," from Publics and Counterpublics (Zone, 2003).
• Ned Landsman, "Evangelists and Their Hearers: Popular Interpretation of Revivalist Preaching in Eighteenth-Century Scotland," Journal of British Studies 28 (1989): 120-49.

afternoon workshop: What Is a Sermon? Text, Performance, Audition, Inscription, Space.
presentation by Michael Warner and discussion.

Readings:

• Harry Stout, from New England Soul (New York: Oxford, 1986), pp. 13-64, 127-65.
• Wilson Kimnach, from the introduction to The Works of Jonathan Edwards, volume 10: Sermons and Discourses, 1720-1723 (New Haven: Yale, 1992), pp. 1-180.
• Tim Hall, from Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World (Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1994), pp. 1-99.
• Charles Hambrick-Stowe, ."he Spiritual Pilgrimage of Sarah Osborn (1714-1796)," Church History 1992; repr. in Jon Butler and Harry S. Stout, eds., Religion in American History (New York: Oxford, 1998), pp. 129-42.

conclusion.

recommended additional readings:

• Susan Wabuda, "Triple Deckers and Eagle Lecterns: Church Furniture for the Book in Late Medieval and Early Modern England," in R. N. Swanson (ed.), The Church and the Book, Studies in Church History, vol. 38 (Boydell Press, 2004), 143-52
• Elizabeth Carroll Reilly, "The Wages of Piety: The Boston Book Trade of Jeremy Candy," in ed. William L. Joyce, David D. Hall, Richard D. Brown, and John B. Hench et al, Printing and Society in Early America (Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1983), pp. 83-125
• Hugh Amory, "A Note on Statistics," in ed. Hugh Amory and David D. Hall, A History of the Book in America, vol.1, "The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 504-18
• David D, Hall and Russell L. Martin, "A Note on Popular and Durable Authors and Titles," in ed. Hugh Amory and David D. Hall, A History of the Book in America, vol.1, "The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 519-21

morning seminar: Benjamin Franklin

• Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography (Norton Critical Edition).
• Frank Lambert, "Subscribing for Profits and Piety: The Friendship of Benjamin Franklin and George Whitefield," William and Mary Quarterly 50 (July 1993): 529-54.
• James N. Green, "Benjamin Franklin as Publisher and Bookseller," in J. A. Leo Lemay, ed., Reappraising Benjamin Franklin (1993), 98-114.
• The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Leonard W. Labaree and Whitfield J. Bell (Yale University Press, 1960), vol. 2, pp. 28-33; 37-126; 241-4; 257-59; 269-70; 287-88; 313-14; 322-27.

recommended additional readings:

• C. William Miller, Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Printing 1728-1766: A Descriptive Bibliography (American Philosophical Society, 1974), pp. 75-177.
• Michael Warner, The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America (Harvard University Press, 1990), 73-96.
• James N. Green, "The Book Trade in the Middle Colonies 1690-1720," in ed. Hugh Amory and David D. Hall, A History of the Book in America, vol.1, "The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 199-223.
• James N. Green, "The Middle Colonies 1720-1790: English Books and printing in the Age of Franklin," in ed. Hugh Amory and David D. Hall, A History of the Book in America, vol.1, "The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 248-98.
• Hugh Amory, "The New England Book Trade, 1713-1790," in in ed. Hugh Amory and David D. Hall, A History of the Book in America, vol.1, "The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 314-46.
• John R. Williams, "The Strange Case of Dr. Franklin and Mr. Whitefield," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 102 (1978): 399-421.
• Meron A. Christensen, "Franklin on the Hemphill Trial," William and Mary Quarterly 3rd series, 10 (1953): 422-40.

morning seminar: Marketing Devotion.
presentation by David D. Hall and discussion. Readings:

• Thomas J. Holmes, from Cotton Mather: A Bibliography: entry for A Token for the Children of New England.
• Jonathan Edwards, from Life of David Brainerd, ed. Norman Pettit (Yale ed. Works of Jonathan Edwards).
• Norman Fiering, "The Transatlantic Republic of Letters: A Note on the Circulation of Learned Periodicals to Early Eighteenth-Century America," WMQ 3d ser. 33.4 (1976): 642-60.

Lunch (GDH)

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afternoon workshop: The New-England Primer
presentation by Peter Stallybrass and discussion.

Readings:

• Kyle Roberts, Bibliography of the Rhyming Alphabet of the New-England Primer (unpublished ms.)
• Patricia Crain, The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The New-England Primer to The Scarlet Letter (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), pp. 1-101.
• Paul Leicester Ford, The New-England Primer (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1899), pp. 1-53 and 248-60
• Peter Stallybrass, "Adultery for Children" (unpublished ms.).
• David D. Hall, Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996), pp. 36-78.

conclusion. recommended additional readings: Gillian Avery, "Origins and English Predecessors of the New-England Primer," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, vol. 108, Part 1 (1998): 33-61. Ross W. Beales and E. Jennifer Monaghan, .Literacy and Schoolbooks,. in in ed. Hugh Amory and David D. Hall, A History of the Book in America, vol.1, "The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 380-86 E. Jennifer Monaghan, .Literacy Instruction and Gender in Colonial New England,. in David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery, The Book History Reader (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 297-315 Further Reading:

• Charles F. Heartman, The New-England Primer Issued Prior to 1830 (R. R. Bowker, 1934)
• Charles F. Heartman, Non-New England Primers Issued Prior to 1830 (Harry B. Weiss, 1935)
• William Sloane, Children's Books in England and America in the Seventeenth Century (Columbia University Press, 1955).
• A. S. W. Rosenbach, Early American Children.s Books (Dover Publications, 1971).
• Charles C. Butterworth, The English Primers (1529- 1545): Their Publication and Connection to the English Bible and the Reformation in England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953).
• Ian Green, The Christian's ABC: Catechisms and Catechizing in England c. 1530-1740 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).

morning seminar: An Evangelical Public Sphere?

• David Nord, chapters 2-4 from Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America (Oxford, 2004), pp. 27-88.
• Candy Brown, part 1 from The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880 (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2004), pp. 27-138.
• Isabel Hofmeyr, "Portable Texts: Bunyan, Translation and Transnationality," from The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim's Progress (Princeton Univ. Press, 2004).