Reviews

Arguing the inseparableness of print and culture, this is one of the most engaging books about eighteenth-century American publishing in decades. -- Hazel Dicken-Garcia "Journal of the Early Republic"

Michael Warner's compact discourse on the meaning of the printed word in eighteenth-century America will be recognized by every reader as an extraordinarily ingenious contribution, and one of lasting lasting importance, to the study of republicanism and to the history of print...Warner's notion of a socially and culturally limited "public sphere," inhabited by participants in a depersonalized, largely printed discourse, not only rings true to the evidence but provides a powerful aid in articulating the nature and limits of republicanism. -- Charles E. Clark "William and Mary Quarterly"