A Divinity for All Persuasions uncovers the prevailing religious sensibility at the center of early America's most popular form of print: the almanac. Employing

This collection is a selection of comic items from almanacs published between 1776 and 1800. Dodge uses his smooth, astute writing style to unfold the humor in

A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.

This groundbreaking study examines the production of ephemeral literature and the creation of a mass reading public in lowland Scotland between the sixteenth an