Introduction: Parting with Wholes in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art
Matthew Pethers and Daniel Diez Couch
Part I – Partial Histories
Chapter 1: Reading for Unreadability; or, Embracing the Gaps in Congregational Church Records
Lori Rogers-Stokes
Chapter 2: Textural Scholarship: Susan Howe’s Mary Rowlandson
Marion Rust
Chapter 3: ‘Composing my resentments’: Process and Palimpsest in Sarah Kemble Knight’s The Journal of Madam Knight
Nicholas K. Mohlmann
Chapter 4: Fragments, Scraps, and the Formalism of the Historical Imagination
Daniel Diez Couch
Part II – Fragmentary Communities
Chapter 5: Reading Early American Almanacs: Imagining Unity in Parts and Pieces
Keri Holt
Chapter 6: Lists and List-Makers of the African Atlantic Archive
John Saillant
Chapter 7: Failed Periodicals, Forgotten Satires, and Alternative Forms of Dissent in Antebellum America
D. Berton Emerson
Part III – Visible Assemblages
Chapter 8: The Early National Picturesque
Laurel Hankins
Chapter 9: Visualizing the Incompleteness of ‘Mound-Builder’ Ruins
Lisa West
Chapter 10: Edward Taylor and the Art of Assemblage
Amy Morris
Notes on Contributors
Index
Introduction: Parting with Wholes in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art 1 Matthew Pethers and Daniel Diez Couch
PA R T O N E: Partial Histories
1 Reading for Unreadability; or, Embracing the Gaps in Congregational Church Records 33 Lori Rogers-Stokes
2 “Textural Scholarship”: Susan Howe’s Mary Rowlandson 49 Marion Rust
3 “Composing My Resentments”: Process and Palimpsest in Sarah Kemble Knight’s The Journal of Madam Knight 76 Nicholas K. Mohlmann
4 Fragments, Scraps, and the Formalism of the Historical Imagination 95 Daniel Diez Couch
PA R T TWO: Fragmentary Communities
5 Reading Early American Almanacs: Imagining Unity in Parts and Pieces 117 Keri Holt
6 Lists and List-Makers of the African Atlantic Archive 151 John Saillant
7 Failed Periodicals, Forgotten Satires, and Alternative Forms of Dissent in Antebellum America 172 D. Berton Emerson
PA R T T H R E E: Visible Assemblages
8 The Early National Picturesque 199 Laurel V. Hankins
9 Visualizing the Incompleteness of “Mound-Builder” Ruins 220 Lisa West
10 Edward Taylor and the Art of Assemblage 249 Amy M. E. Morris
Notes on Contributors 275
Index 278
