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Announcing an upcoming academic seminar to be held at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA. On Tuesday, October 27, at 4:30 PM, Meredith Neuman, an assistant professor of English at Clark University, will be giving a paper titled: Unauthorizing Texts: Puritan Notetaking and Sermon Publication Prof. Neuman has provided the following précis of her talk: The production of sermons in seventeenth-century New England was a distinctly communal effort. Examination of extant sermon notebooks suggests that clergy and laity found themselves equally engaged in the recording and dissemination of sermon literature. Comparisons between manuscript and print sources reveal no fixed progression from oral performance to publication. Rather, the world of sermon literature functioned more like an ecosystem in which oral, aural, manuscript, and print texts coexisted and each form drew meaning from the others. Seventeenth-century New England sermon culture proves particularly instructive in challenging criteria for what constitutes an "authoritative" text and in questioning how we construct the sovereignty of authorship. The seminar will take place in the Elmarion Room at the Goddard-Daniels House, located at 190 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA, 01609. Further details are available on the AAS website, www.americanantiquarian.org. Paul J. Erickson Director of Academic Programs American Antiquarian Society 508-471-2158
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