The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art. The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art / edited by Matthew Pethers [and nine others].

Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction: Parting with Wholes in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art
Part One: Partial Histories
1. Reading for Unreadability
or, Embracing the Gaps in Congregational Church Records
2. "Textural Scholarship": Susan Howe's Mary Rowlandson
3. "Composing My Resentments": Process and Palimpsest in Sarah Kemble Knight's The Journal of Madam Knight
4. Fragments, Scraps, and the Formalism of the Historical Imagination
Part Two: Fragmentary Communities
5. Reading Early American Almanacs: Imagining Unity in Parts and Pieces
6. Lists and List-Makers of the African Atlantic Archive
7. Failed Periodicals, Forgotten Satires, and Alternative Forms of Dissent in Antebellum America
Part Three: Visible Assemblages
8. The Early National Picturesque
9. Visualizing the Incompleteness of "Mound-Builder" Ruins
10. Edward Taylor and the Art of Assemblage
Notes on Contributors
Index.