{"title":"The Transcendentalists and Their World","authors":"B. Park","doi":"10.1162/tneq_r_00966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00966","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45079878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Through an analysis of the daybook of late-eighteenth-century Boston bookseller Benjamin Guild, this essay presents a microhistory of retail bookselling in Boston just after the Revolutionary War. It argues that American customers mainly bought British books and that prices varied, with implications for book history, literature, and cultural studies.
{"title":"Selling Books in Eighteenth-Century Boston: The Daybook of Benjamin Guild","authors":"Leah Orr","doi":"10.1162/tneq_a_00964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00964","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Through an analysis of the daybook of late-eighteenth-century Boston bookseller Benjamin Guild, this essay presents a microhistory of retail bookselling in Boston just after the Revolutionary War. It argues that American customers mainly bought British books and that prices varied, with implications for book history, literature, and cultural studies.","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45561395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article reinterprets New England's 1720s Singing Controversy as a sensory event that altered the nature of puritan sonic piety in early New England. Far from a parochial peculiarity in the history of American music, the 1720s singing reforms were part of broader challenges to a previous way of knowing-an epistemology, or, in this context, an “acoustemology.”
{"title":"Sonic Piety in Early New England","authors":"F. Russo","doi":"10.1162/tneq_a_00962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00962","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article reinterprets New England's 1720s Singing Controversy as a sensory event that altered the nature of puritan sonic piety in early New England. Far from a parochial peculiarity in the history of American music, the 1720s singing reforms were part of broader challenges to a previous way of knowing-an epistemology, or, in this context, an “acoustemology.”","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45585489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
compact nature, a triumph in condensing so much social history in such an efficient and breezy read. This brevity and precision made the work accessible to the general public and undergraduate students alike. The book’s sequel, however, revels in its excess of information and analysis, resulting in its six hundred pages of text and another two hundred pages of endnotes. This not only pushes the work beyond what can typically be assigned in the classroom but also makes it difficult to glean the more important lessons that are subtly embedded within the work. It is more difficult for the reader to find the primary points when surrounded by so much material. One of his generation’s best historians of antiquarians, Gross has grown closer to antiquarianism himself. Yet these are issues often inherent in classic texts when cultivated over an entire career. Transcendentalists and Their World is a landmark work in social history that will serve as a resource for all historians of nineteenth-century America and scholarly model for generations to come.
{"title":"Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form","authors":"A. Russell","doi":"10.1162/tneq_r_00967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00967","url":null,"abstract":"compact nature, a triumph in condensing so much social history in such an efficient and breezy read. This brevity and precision made the work accessible to the general public and undergraduate students alike. The book’s sequel, however, revels in its excess of information and analysis, resulting in its six hundred pages of text and another two hundred pages of endnotes. This not only pushes the work beyond what can typically be assigned in the classroom but also makes it difficult to glean the more important lessons that are subtly embedded within the work. It is more difficult for the reader to find the primary points when surrounded by so much material. One of his generation’s best historians of antiquarians, Gross has grown closer to antiquarianism himself. Yet these are issues often inherent in classic texts when cultivated over an entire career. Transcendentalists and Their World is a landmark work in social history that will serve as a resource for all historians of nineteenth-century America and scholarly model for generations to come.","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43521616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I this number, the New England Quarterly proudly announces the publication of the 2021 Colonial Society of Massachusetts Walter Muir Whitehill Prize winning essay, “The Rights of God’s Stewards: Property, Conscience, and the Great Awakening in Canterbury, Connecticut” by Erik Nordbye. The prize recognizes Whitehill’s contributions to the Colonial Society, but at the same time we acknowledge the Colonial Society’s larger contributions to scholarship on early America. Walter Muir Whitehill was, in the words of the New York Times, “one of Boston’s most outspoken champions of historic preservation.” Whitehill presided over the Colonial Society, managed the publication of collections of primary source documents in volumes remarkable for their editorial integrity and beauty—a practice continued, after 1978 by Fredrick Scouller Allis Jr. and, then since 1993, by John Tyler—and laid the foundation for its current programs. The establishment of the Whitehill Prize represents the extension of the Colonial Society’s mission to encourage scholarship on early American history. Readers of this journal know that the prize annually offers an honorarium to an outstanding essay on the early republic (up to 1815) which the Quarterly agrees to publish. A doctoral student in theology at the Harvard Divinity School, Erik Nordbye illustrates the Colonial Society’s support of innovative scholarship. Rather than pursuing the evangelical arguments separating New from Old Light theology, Nordbye correlates institutional and structural attributes of that division with questions about the impact of the contexts of property and possessory rights in shaping the disputes of the Great Awakening and provides us with an unusual view of its
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Jonathan M Chu","doi":"10.1162/tneq_e_00960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_e_00960","url":null,"abstract":"I this number, the New England Quarterly proudly announces the publication of the 2021 Colonial Society of Massachusetts Walter Muir Whitehill Prize winning essay, “The Rights of God’s Stewards: Property, Conscience, and the Great Awakening in Canterbury, Connecticut” by Erik Nordbye. The prize recognizes Whitehill’s contributions to the Colonial Society, but at the same time we acknowledge the Colonial Society’s larger contributions to scholarship on early America. Walter Muir Whitehill was, in the words of the New York Times, “one of Boston’s most outspoken champions of historic preservation.” Whitehill presided over the Colonial Society, managed the publication of collections of primary source documents in volumes remarkable for their editorial integrity and beauty—a practice continued, after 1978 by Fredrick Scouller Allis Jr. and, then since 1993, by John Tyler—and laid the foundation for its current programs. The establishment of the Whitehill Prize represents the extension of the Colonial Society’s mission to encourage scholarship on early American history. Readers of this journal know that the prize annually offers an honorarium to an outstanding essay on the early republic (up to 1815) which the Quarterly agrees to publish. A doctoral student in theology at the Harvard Divinity School, Erik Nordbye illustrates the Colonial Society’s support of innovative scholarship. Rather than pursuing the evangelical arguments separating New from Old Light theology, Nordbye correlates institutional and structural attributes of that division with questions about the impact of the contexts of property and possessory rights in shaping the disputes of the Great Awakening and provides us with an unusual view of its","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43646216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Native Americans never vanished from New England. Even as colonialism disrupted—and continues to disrupt— Indigenous lives, Native Americans of New England resisted, adapted, and survived (xi, 63). Christoph Strobel makes this familiar but vital argument accessible to general audiences by chronicling the experiences of Native Americans living in and around the region from the Pleistocene epoch to the present. The book’s chronological and geographic scope set it apart from existing studies, which normally focus on shorter periods of time, particular areas, or select groups. Strobel synthesizes decades of scholarship from a range of disciplines and walks novices through the field’s major methodological challenges. Readers learn about lingering debates and unanswered questions, especially pertaining to the millennia before European contact. Although people are the primary subject, specialists may also appreciate the book as a study of New England regionalism. A “long-term perspective” is Strobel’s best weapon against the racist myth that Native Americans disappeared from New England soon after the English began planting colonies there (xi). Seventeenth-century colonists introduced the idea of the vanishing Indian to explain and justify how colonialism transformed the region. By the nineteenth century, sex and marriage between Native Americans, African Americans, and poor whites (actions Strobel deems essential to the “continued adaptation, persistence, acculturation, and sustained Native American presence” in New England) combined with proslavery
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Abstract The struggle for religious liberty in Canterbury, CT, was fought over property. When the Great Awakening divided church against town, evangelical “Separates” withdrew from the establishment and launched a campaign against ecclesiastical taxation, using concepts of conscience, stewardship, and property rights to defend estates and create a voluntary religious economy.
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Abstract New England's lingering sense of itself as the locus of abolitionist virtue makes it imperative to interrogate this self-perception while examining the cultural import of contemporary African American memorials in the region. Twenty-first century commemorations in Northern New England are attempting to correct the visual and historical record of the suppression and expulsion of African Americans by erecting memorials that celebrate New England's Black history.
{"title":"Beyond “Sectional Superiority”1: Memorializing Black History in Northern New England","authors":"E. A. Raimon","doi":"10.1162/tneq_a_00963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00963","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract New England's lingering sense of itself as the locus of abolitionist virtue makes it imperative to interrogate this self-perception while examining the cultural import of contemporary African American memorials in the region. Twenty-first century commemorations in Northern New England are attempting to correct the visual and historical record of the suppression and expulsion of African Americans by erecting memorials that celebrate New England's Black history.","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48498044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unfaithful: Love, Adultery, and Marriage Reform in Nineteenth-century America","authors":"A. Haynes","doi":"10.1162/tneq_r_00968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00968","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43669812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Living Past: Commitments for the Future The First Millennium Evening Hosted at the White House","authors":"Bernard Bailyn","doi":"10.1162/tneq_a_00956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00956","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45517123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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