1. Howard Zinn, for example, lectured on ‘The Meaning of Sacco and Vanzetti’ at the Dante Alighieri Society Italian Cultural Center, Cambridge, MA, on 7 November 2008. This and other events are chronicled by the Sacco & Vanzetti Commemoration Society,
http://saccoandvanzetti.org
/ (accessed 7 April 2009).
2. G. Louis Joughlin and Edmund M. Morgan, The Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1948), 385.
3. Paul B. Armstrong, ‘Form and History: Reading as an Aesthetic Experience and Historical Act,’ Modern Language Quarterly 69.2 ( June 2008): 195.
4. Susan J. Wolfson, ‘Reading for Form,’ Modern Language Quarterly 61.1 (2000): 2. This special issue, edited by Wolfson and Marshall Brown, and the subsequent book collection, Reading for Form, based on the issue, remain two of the most influential forays into New Formalism. Susan J. Wolfson, ed., Reading for Form (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006).
5. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘Close Reading,’ PMLA: Publications of the Modernist Language Association of America 121.5 (October 2006): 1608–17.