Introduction / Caroline F. Sloat
Hand piety, or, Operating a book in early New England / Matthew P. Brown
Poor performance : incompetence in conversation, manuscript, and print in British America / David S. Shields
Addressing maps in British America : print, performance, and the cartographic reformation / Martin Brückner
Print, manuscript, and staged performance : dramatic authorship and text circulation in the new republic / Jeffrey H. Richards
From performance to print in the native northeast / Phillip H. Round
Beyond the printed word : native women's literacy practices in colonial New England / Hilary E. Wyss
Sarah Wentworth Morton and changing models of authorship / Angela Vietto
The path of a play script : Louisa Medina's Nick of the Woods / Katherine Wilson
"The speaking eye and the listening ear" : orality, literacy, and manuscript traditions in northern New England villages / Joan Newlon Radner
Print poetry as oral "event" in nineteenth-century American periodicals / Ingrid Satelmajer
Silenced women and silent language in early abolitionist serials / Joycelyn Moody
Straddling the color line : the print revolution and the transmission, performance, and reception of American vernacular music / Philip F. Gura
Secret in altered lines : the Civil War song in manuscript, print, and performance publics / Coleman Hutchison
The state between orality and textuality : nineteenth-century government reports and "orature" / Oz Frankel
Authentic revisions : James Redpath and the promotion of social reform in America, 1850-90 / Susan S. Williams
Reading the image : visual culture as print culture and the performance of a bourgeois self / Laura Burd Schiavo
The emerging media of early America / Sandra M. Gustafson.
