Table of Contents

Ch. 1. Contingencies of Authorship: The Protestant Vernacular Tradition, the Book Trades, and Technologies of Production Ch. 2. Not in Print yet Published: The Practice of Scribal Publication Ch. 3. Social Authorship and the Making of Printed Texts Ch. 4. Textures of Social Authorship: Case Studies Ch. 5. Between Unity and Sedition: The Practice of Dissent List of Abbreviations Notes Index

About the Author

David D. Hall is Bartlett Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of The Faithful Shepherd: A History of the New England Ministry and Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England, and editor of Bibliography and the Book Trades: Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England by Hugh Amory, the latter also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews

"[Hall demonstrates] how many well-worn topics stand to be transformed when literature is imagined as a series of practices and books are engaged as material objects... For students of book history and of early New England, Ways of Writing ... can and should have profound effects on scholarly ways of thinking."-Church History "Hall's historical research changes our understanding of what a text is as well as the historical reality we can infer from any example of colonial writing... [He] has given scholars of early American literature a great deal of new work to do."-American Literature "Hall's work ... complicates and refines our notions of the significance of the individual author and his/her originality in making texts during this period as well as the significance we assign the practices of anonymity... [A] richly detailed and engagingly written study."-American Historical Review