Friday, January 9, 2004

9:30–11:30 a.m.

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Session
Reading Religion: Scandalized Literature, Community, and Morality in American Religious Publishing

Omni Shoreham, Cabinet Room

Chair: Laura Cruz, Western Carolina University
Papers:

Religious Periodicals and Collective Identity, 1840–80
Candy Gunther Brown, Saint Louis University

Turning Ideology into Material Culture: The Technologies of American Anti-Catholic Books, 1835–75
Elizabeth Haven Hawley, Georgia Institute of Technology

Conspiracy, Scandal, and “Counter Subversion”: America’s Anti-Catholic Tradition in Twentieth-Century Print Culture
Justin Nordstrom, Indiana University

Comment: Paul Erickson, University of Texas at Austin