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Conflict Management: Jeremy Belknap’s Committed Literature

Conflict Management: Jeremy Belknap’s Committed Literature david lawrimore University of Florida Conflict Management Jeremy Belknap's Committed Literature In recent years, studies of Federalist-era conversation circles have provided a new way to map the intersection between early national print culture and urban intellectual networks. Through explorations of such circles as the Friendly Club and the Anthology Society, scholars including Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan and Bryan Waterman have shown how these groups served as nodal points in a lattice of cultural exchange that strove to cultivate a civil sphere that rose above the factious partisan debates of the period.1 Believing that the disinterested circulation of ideas had the potential for social reform, they produced and exchanged information through a broad range of literary forms, including medical journals, magazines, newspapers, plays, poems, and novels. Scholars have thus identified a symbiotic relationship in which conversation circles relied on publishers to print their writings while publishers relied on these circles to purchase and circulate texts.2 Within this hodgepodge of genres and formats of publication, texts acted as an assemblage of raw materials, open to collaborative emendation and critique. Less invested in maintaining a coherent textual structure, intellectuals remixed and recirculated a broad range of literary output. By focusing on the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Conflict Management: Jeremy Belknap’s Committed Literature

Early American Literature , Volume 50 (2) – Jun 21, 2015
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david lawrimore University of Florida Conflict Management Jeremy Belknap's Committed Literature In recent years, studies of Federalist-era conversation circles have provided a new way to map the intersection between early national print culture and urban intellectual networks. Through explorations of such circles as the Friendly Club and the Anthology Society, scholars including Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan and Bryan Waterman have shown how these groups served as nodal points in a lattice of cultural exchange that strove to cultivate a civil sphere that rose above the factious partisan debates of the period.1 Believing that the disinterested circulation of ideas had the potential for social reform, they produced and exchanged information through a broad range of literary forms, including medical journals, magazines, newspapers, plays, poems, and novels. Scholars have thus identified a symbiotic relationship in which conversation circles relied on publishers to print their writings while publishers relied on these circles to purchase and circulate texts.2 Within this hodgepodge of genres and formats of publication, texts acted as an assemblage of raw materials, open to collaborative emendation and critique. Less invested in maintaining a coherent textual structure, intellectuals remixed and recirculated a broad range of literary output. By focusing on the

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