Session III: Thursday, May 24, 2001, 11:00-12:20 p.m.

F. INTERPRETIVE RELATIONS IN COLONIAL BRITISH AMERICA, John Quincy Adams Ballroom

Chair: Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the Society of Early Americanists

1. “Strange Antipodeans: Identity and the Other Side of the World in Early British-American Writing,” Jim Egan, Brown University

2. “Carping Tongues and Censorious Poets: The Construction of Readers in Seventeenth-Century America,” Raymond Craig, Kent State University

3. “ ‘A Mean Lay-man Speaking with the Scripture’: Interpretive Authority in Massachusetts Bay,” Lisa Gordis, Barnard College

Session X: Friday, May 25, 2001, 8:00-9:20 a.m.

D. QUAKER WOMEN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN EARLY AMERICA, William Dawes A

Chair: Michele Lise Tarter, The College of New Jersey and the Society of Early Americanists

1. “Following the Openings: Jane Fenn Hoskens’s American Quaker Life (1771),” Joanna Brooks, University of Texas at Austin

2. “ ‘The Fair Advocate of Truth’: Anne Emlen’s Meditations on Peace and War in Revolutionary Philadelphia,” Janet Moore Lindman, Rowan University

3. “Cousin that is a Quaker’s Book!”: Elizabeth Ashbridge’s Testimony to the Power of Quaker Language, Prophecy, and Writing in Early America,” Michele Lise Tarter, The College of New Jersey

Session XIV: Friday, May 25, 12:30-1:50 p.m.

D. A HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AMERICA, VOLUME I: THE COLONIAL BOOK IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD: A ROUNDTABLE, William Dawes A

Chair: Philip Gould, Brown University and the Society of Early Americanists

1. Hugh Armory, Houghton Library

2. Sandra Gustafson, University of Notre Dame

3. J.A. Leo Lemay, University of Delaware

4. Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University