PUBLICATIONS (in reverse chronological order)

[last updated June 12, 2008]

6.

“Middle-Class Formation in Eighteenth-Century North America,” in Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World, Simon Middleton and Billy G. Smith, editors (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), pp. 99-108.

5.

“Letter Writing, Stationery Supplies, and Consumer Modernity in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World,” Early American Literature 41:3 (Nov. 2006): 474-494.  In Special Issue: Economics and Early American Studies.

4.

“Letter Manuals, Literary Innovation, and the Problem of Defining Genre in Anglo-American Epistolary Instruction, 1568-1800,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 94:4 (Dec. 2000): 541‑550.

3.

“The Familiar Letter and Social Refinement in America, 1750‑1800,” in Letter Writing as a Social Practice, David Barton and Nigel Hall, eds. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2000), pp. 31‑41.

2.

“Letter Writing, Masculinity, and American Men of Science, 1750-1800,” Explorations in Early American Culture: Special Supplemental Issue of Pennsylvania History 65 (1998): 167-198.

1.

“‘Let me chat a little:’ Letter Writing in Rhode Island Before the American Revolution,” Rhode Island History 53:4 (Nov. 1995): 121-133.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

“Goddard, Mary Katherine (1738–1816).”  In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).