David D. Hall . Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text‐Making in Seventeenth‐Century New England.(Material Texts.)Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press . 2008 . Pp. xi, 233. $49.95.

2009 ◽  
Vol 114 (4) ◽  
pp. 1068-1068
Author(s):  
Margaret J. M. Ezell
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Material Texts

scholarly journals David D. Hall. Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth Century New England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 233 p. ISBN 978-0812241020. $49.95

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-58
Author(s):  
Wade Garrison
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
The Political ◽  
Collaborative Culture ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Cultural Forces ◽  
English Speaking World

Expanded from a series of three lectures given in 2007, Hall describes the political, social, and cultural forces that influenced modes of authorship, publishing, and dissemination in 17th-century New England. Separate, but not wholly apart, Hall delineates how writing in New England developed along a different trajectory from the center of the English-speaking world in London. Hall begins by asserting that two keys to understanding New England’s text-making culture have been undervalued. The first is the essentially collaborative culture of how texts were written, spoken, shared, transcribed, annotated, and rewritten. The second is the fundamentally handwritten or scribal practices that . . .

“Why should you be so furious?”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Bross
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Global English ◽  
East Indies ◽  
English Identity

Chapter 4 focuses on the representation of Anglo-Dutch relations from Asia to America in the seventeenth century. The chapter analyzes the representation of an incident in 1623 on the spice island Amboyna when Dutch traders tortured (with waterboarding) and killed their English rivals in the East Indies. Decades later, New England writers returning to this incident, treating it as news, invoked anti-English violence half a world away to lay claim to a global English identity. The chapter compares visual representation of the Amboyna incident with John Underhill’s “figure” of the Mystic Fort massacre in New England, arguing that these representations of violence are key elements of colonial fantasies that made (and make) real atrocities possible. The coda discusses Stephen Bradwell’s 1633 first-aid manual, partly inspired by the Amboyna incident, which maintains that properly trained, authorized metropolitan authorities can control the potential dangers of the remedies torture and tobacco.

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