2005 Summer Seminar Sylabus
"Publishing God:
Printing, Preaching, and Reading in
Eighteenth-Century
America"
June 12-17, 2005
Michael Warner
michael.warner@rutgers.edu
Peter Stallybrass
StallybrassP@aol.com
Books
- The Holy Bible King James Version: 1611 Edition
(Hendrickson Publishers, 2003), ISBN: 1565631609<
- The New-England Primer (WallBuilder Press, ISBN
0-925279-17-X, www.wallbuilders.com)
- Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
(Norton edition, ISBN 0-393-95294-0)
SYLLABUS
ALL "MORNING SEMINAR" SESSIONS WILL BE HELD IN THE GODDARD-DANIELS HOUSE.
ALL "AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS" WILL BE HELD IN THE COUNCIL ROOM AT ANTIQUARIAN
HALL.
June 12 (Sunday)
| 4:30-6:00 p.m. |
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
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| 6:00 pm |
Reception and Dinner,
Goddard Daniels House
(GDH) |
June 13 (Monday)
| 9:00-noon |
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.
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| 12:00-1:15 |
Lunch (GDH) |
| 1:15-3:00 |
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.
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| 3:00-3:15 |
break. |
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3:15-5:00
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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.
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June 14 (Tuesday)
| 9:00-12:00 |
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.
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| 12:00-1:15 |
Lunch (GDH) |
| 1:15-3:00 |
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.
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| 3:00-3:15 |
break |
| 3:14-5:00 |
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
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| 7:30 (optional) |
Sally Promey slide lecture: Mirror Images: Framing the
Self in Early New England Material Practice. Sally's talk will take
place
in the Elmarion Room at the Goddard-Daniels House.
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June 15 (Wednesday)
| 9:00-12:00 |
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.
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| 12:00-1:15 |
Lunch (GDH) |
| 1:15-3:00 |
afternoon workshop: Benjamin Franklin, Religion, and
Print.
presentation by James N. Green and discussion.
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| 3:00-3:15 |
Break |
| 3:15-5:00 |
conclusion
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June 16 (Thursday)
| 9:00-12:00 |
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.
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| 12:00-1:15 |
Lunch (GDH)
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH (LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED) |
| 1:15-3:00 |
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.
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| 3:00-3:15 |
break |
| 3:15-5:00 |
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).
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6:00 PM: | Dinner at the home of John and Lea Hench
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June 17 (Friday)
| 9:00-12:00 |
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).
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| 12:00-1:15 |
Lunch (GDH) |
| 1:15 |
closing roundtable
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