Review: Hall, Ways of Writing (2008)

Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England by David D. Hall

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This book isn't as good as Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment, but it's still a good book. Hall is talking about what "publication" meant in 17th century New England, and the different ways that the two modes of publication (print and scribal) were used by different people (not all men! Anne Bradstreet gets discussed!). He's also talking about all the people who were involved in the publication of a work, the author, the printer, the typesetters, the person who carried the manuscript from Boston to London, the person who wrote a foreword, the person who found the manuscript among the author's library after their death...and how all these people have a share in the text as we receive it.



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