This collection of original essays examines debates on how written,
printed, visual, and performed works produced meaning in American
culture before 1900. The contributors argue that America has been a
multimedia culture since the eighteenth century. According to
Sandra M. Gustafson, the verbal arts before 1900 manifest a
strikingly rich pattern of development and change. From the wide
variety of indigenous traditions, through the initial productions
of settler communities, to the elaborations of colonial,
postcolonial, and national expressive forms, the shifting dynamics
of performed, manuscript-based, and printed verbal art capture
critical elements of rapidly changing societies. The contributors
address performances of religion and government, race and gender,
poetry, theater, and song. Their studies are based on
texts-intended for reading silently or out loud-maps, recovered
speech, and pictorial sources. As these essays demonstrate, media,
even when they appear to be fixed, reflected a dynamic American
experience. Contributors: Caroline F. Sloat, Matthew P. Brown,
David S. Shields, Martin Bruckner, Jeffrey H. Richards, Phillip H.
Round, Hilary E. Wyss, Angela Vietto, Katherine Wilson, Joan Newlon
Radner, Ingrid Satelmajer, Joycelyn Moody, Philip F. Gura, Coleman
Hutchison, Oz Frankel, Susan S. Williams, Laura Burd Schiavo, and
Sandra M. Gustafson
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