The Atlantic World of Print






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	Quidnunc: A Conversation on Transatlantic Histories of Books Chair: Daniel K. Richter, McNeil Center for Early American Studies Panelists: Robert Darnton, Princeton University; David D. Hall, Harvard University Commentary: The audience






	Chair: Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania *The Revolution in Popular Publications: The New England Primer* and Almanac, 1750–1800 Patrick Spero, University of Pennsylvania Keeping Time in the Age of Franklin: Almanacs in the Atlantic World Matthew J. Shaw, British Library** Commentary: Rosalind Remer, Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary




	Chair: James N. Green, Library Company of Philadelphia The Work of Attribution in the Atlantic World of Print *David A. Brewer, The Ohio State University* “Self-Love and Social Be the Same”: Alexander Pope and Anglo-American Debates on the Passions, 1735-1776 *Nicole Eustace, New York University* Dutch Readers in Eighteenth-Century British New York City *Joyce D. Goodfriend, University of Denver* Commentary: Richard B. Sher, New Jersey Institute of Technology



	Chair: John M. Murrin, Princeton University Writing and Rioting in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Virginia: The Effect of Print on Traditional Crowd Politics *Alexander B. Haskell, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville* An Expanding Public Sphere: Women and Print in Colonial Virginia, 1736-1776 *Roger Mellen, George Mason University* Reading and Radicalization: The American Revolution and the Problem of Causality in the History of the Book *Eric Slauter, University of Chicago* Commentary: David Waldstreicher, Temple University




	Chair: Rosalind Remer, Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Bad Franklin: Richard Francklin, John Peter Zenger, and the Transatlantic Meaning of the Craftsman Trials *James J. Caudle, Yale University* Ritual in Print: Benjamin Franklin, Ritual Reformers, and Social Critique *Madeline Duntley, Bowling Green State University* “This Separation Forced Upon Us”: Philadelphia’s Free Quakers and the Political Uses of Print in Revolutionary-Era Pennsylvania *Susan Garfinkel, Library of Congress* Liberation Technology: Print and African American Emancipation in the Late 18th Century *Richard Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology* Commentary: Robert Darnton, Princeton University


	McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk *All registered attendees are welcome*

	McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk *Advance reservations required: $30; $15 for graduate students*






	Chair: Paul W. Romaine, American Printing History Association Franklin’s Passy Press *Ellen Cohn, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale University* The “Wilderness of Numberless Books”: Cadwallader Colden and the Science of Printing *John Dixon, UCLA* “The Honour of Your Friendship”: Women Printers and Benjamin Franklin’s Printing Network *Martha J. King, Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University* Commentary: James N. Green, Library Company of Philadelphia




	Chair: Eric Holzenberg, The Grolier Club American Letter Manuals, Local Identities, and the Transatlantic Book Trade *Eve Tavor Bannet, The University of Oklahoma* Accounts of the South Pacific across the Atlantic World: 18th-Century American Editions of Cook’s Voyages *Stéphane Roy, Yale Center for British Art* How Franklin’s Transatlantic Book Trade and Scientific Networks Interacted, 1730-57 *Nick Wrightson, Oxford University* Commentary: James Raven, University of Essex



	Chair: J.A. Leo Lemay, University of Delaware How Franklin Organized His Books *Kevin Hayes, University of Central Oklahoma* Politics in the Republic of Letters: Knowledge and Authority in Atlantic America, 1650-1750 *Mark A. Peterson, University of Iowa* Student and Faculty Use of the Harvard College Library, 1762-1764: Reassessing the Relevance of Colonial American College Libraries *David R. Whitesell, American Antiquarian Society* Commentary: David D. Hall, Harvard University




	Chair: John C. Van Horne, The Library Company of Philadelphia Summary Comments: Barbara Oberg, Princeton University Closing Remarks: James N. Green and Peter Stallybrass

	"Benjamin Franklin, Writer and Printer" The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street *All registered attendees are welcome*

Illustrations courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia

Quidnunc: A Conversation on Transatlantic Histories of Books

Chair: Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania

The Revolution in Popular Publications: The New England Primer and Almanac, 1750–1800

Keeping Time in the Age of Franklin: Almanacs in the Atlantic World

Matthew J. Shaw, British Library

The Work of Attribution in the Atlantic World of Print

David A. Brewer, The Ohio State University

“Self-Love and Social Be the Same”: Alexander Pope and Anglo-American Debates on the Passions, 1735-1776

Nicole Eustace, New York University

Dutch Readers in Eighteenth-Century British New York City

Joyce D. Goodfriend, University of Denver

Commentary: Richard B. Sher, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Writing and Rioting in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Virginia: The Effect of Print on Traditional Crowd Politics

Alexander B. Haskell, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

An Expanding Public Sphere: Women and Print in Colonial Virginia, 1736-1776

Roger Mellen, George Mason University

Reading and Radicalization: The American Revolution and the Problem of Causality in the History of the Book

Eric Slauter, University of Chicago

Bad Franklin: Richard Francklin, John Peter Zenger, and the Transatlantic Meaning of the Craftsman Trials

James J. Caudle, Yale University

Ritual in Print: Benjamin Franklin, Ritual Reformers, and Social Critique

Madeline Duntley, Bowling Green State University

“This Separation Forced Upon Us”: Philadelphia’s Free Quakers and the Political Uses of Print in Revolutionary-Era Pennsylvania

Susan Garfinkel, Library of Congress

Liberation Technology: Print and African American Emancipation in the Late 18th Century

Richard Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology

McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk

McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk

Franklin’s Passy Press

Ellen Cohn, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale University

The “Wilderness of Numberless Books”: Cadwallader Colden and the Science of Printing

John Dixon, UCLA

“The Honour of Your Friendship”: Women Printers and Benjamin Franklin’s Printing Network

Martha J. King, Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University

American Letter Manuals, Local Identities, and the Transatlantic Book Trade

Eve Tavor Bannet, The University of Oklahoma

Accounts of the South Pacific across the Atlantic World: 18th-Century American Editions of Cook’s Voyages

Stéphane Roy, Yale Center for British Art

How Franklin’s Transatlantic Book Trade and Scientific Networks Interacted, 1730-57

Nick Wrightson, Oxford University

How Franklin Organized His Books

Kevin Hayes, University of Central Oklahoma

Politics in the Republic of Letters: Knowledge and Authority in Atlantic America, 1650-1750

Mark A. Peterson, University of Iowa

Student and Faculty Use of the Harvard College Library, 1762-1764: Reassessing the Relevance of Colonial American College Libraries

David R. Whitesell, American Antiquarian Society

Summary Comments: Barbara Oberg, Princeton University

Closing Remarks: James N. Green and Peter Stallybrass

"Benjamin Franklin, Writer and Printer"

The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street

**The Revolution in Popular Publications: The New England Primer and Almanac, 1750–1800**