The University of Iowa Department of English
Laura Rigal

Selected Publications

bookcover American ManufactoryBook

The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic, Princeton University Press, 1998.

Selected Articles

Essay in a collection, "Imperial Attractions: Franklin's New Experiments of 1751" in Memory Bytes: Historical Perspectives on American Digital Culture, eds. Lauren Rabinovitz, Abraham Geil, (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003), 23-46.

"Electric Books of 1747," Common-Place, 1:2, 2001

“Framing the fabric: A Luddite reading of Penn's Treaty with the Indians (Benjamin West)” American Literary History, 12:3, Fall 2000.

"Public culture in the early Republic: Peale's Museum and its audience by Brigham D" William and Mary Quarterly, 56:2 1999.

“''Raising the Roof': Authors, spectators and artisans in the grand federal procession of 1788” Theatre Journal, 48:3 1996.

"Writing in the New Nation - Prose, Print and Politics in the Early United States," Modern Philology, 91:4 1994.

"Peale's Mammoth," in David C. Miller ed., American Iconology New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993

"Franklin and Bache - Envisioning the Enlightened Republic," William and Mary Quarterly, 48:3, 1991.

 

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