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Thomas Augst and Ken Carpenter, editors, Institutions of Reading: the Social Life of Libraries in the
United States (advance contract, University of Massachusetts Press).
Thomas Augst and Wayne Wiegand, editors, Libraries as Agencies of Culture (Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 2002). 210 pages. (*A reprint of the special issue below, with revised title).
— “The Library as an Agency of Culture,” special issue of American Studies 42.3 (Fall, 2001). 210
pages.
Articles
"The Commerce of Thought: Professional Authority and Business Ethics in Nineteenth-Century
America," Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 27 (2002): 49-76.
“American Libraries and Agencies of Culture," introduction to “The Library as Agency of Culture,”
special issue of American Studies 42:3 (Fall, 2001): 5-22.
(* Reprinted in Libraries as Agencies of Culture (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002).
“The Costs of Character,” ISSUE 6 (Fall, 2001): 36-41.
"Frederick Douglass, Between Speech and Print." Chapter in Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers from
the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference, ed. Frederick Antczak, Cinda Coggins, and Geoffrey
Klinger (Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002), 53-62.
"Composing the Moral Senses: Emerson and the Politics of Character in Nineteenth-Century America."
Political Theory 27.1 (February, 1999): 85-120.
"The Business of Reading in Nineteenth-Century America: The New York Mercantile Library."
American Quarterly 50.2 (June, 1998): 267-305.
“The Arts and Literature,” Chapter One in American Eras. Volume 3: The Revolutionary Era (1754-
1783), ed. Robert Allison (New York: Gale Publishing, 1998), 13-44. (*This series of Volumes in
American Eras won awards for Outstanding Reference Source for 1998 from Reference USA and Best
Reference for 1997 from Reference Books Bulletin/Booklist Editors' Choice).
Reviews
“Antebellum Authorship and the Common Property of American Literature.” Review of American
Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, by Meredith McGill. Reviews in American History 32:3
(September, 2004) 358-364.
With Ken Carpenter, “A History of Libraries in the United States: A Conference Report,” Libraries &
Culture 38.1 (Winter, 2003): 61-66.
(Untitled) Review of Selling the True Time, by Ian Bartky. KronoScope 2.2 (2002): 249-251.
(Untitled) Review of Literature and Humanitarian Reform in the Civil War Era, by Gregory Eiselein.
American Studies 43.1 (Spring, 2002): 184-186.
(Untitled) Review of American Libraries Before 1876, by Haynes McMullen. Papers of the
Bibliographic Society of America 96.1 (March 2002): 126-128.
(Untitled) Review of Eloquence is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America, by Sandra
Gustafson. William and Mary Quarterly 58.3 (July, 2001): 699-703.
(Untitled) Review of A History of the Book in America, by David Hall and Hugh Amory. SHARP
(Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) Newsletter (Fall, 2000): 12-13.
"Salons and Coteries." Review of Intimate Companions: A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul
Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and their Circle, by David Leddick. Boston Book Review 7.4 (May 2000): 17.
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