After print : eighteenth-century manuscript cultures /

After print : eighteenth-century manuscript cultures / edited by Rachael Scarborough King. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource

"This volume originated as a double panel at the 2014 Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual meeting in Montreal and as the conference 'After Print: Manuscripts in the Eighteenth Century' held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on April 24, 2015"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Part I. Coteries, Communities, Collaborations: Manuscript Publication -- "Pray for the Unworthy Scribbler": The Textual Cultures of Early Methodist Women / Collecting John Abbot's Natural History Notes and Drawings / A "Female Accomplishment"?: Femininity, Privacy, and Eighteenth-Century Letter-Writing Norms / Bookmaking and Archiving in Dorothy Wordsworth's Notebooks / Part II. The Manuscript-Print Interface -- Paratextual Readers: Manuscript Verse in Printed Books of the Long Eighteenth Century / Mediating the "Sudden & Surprising Revolution": Official Manuscript Newsletters and the Revolution of 1688 / Manuscript, Print, and the Affective Turn: The Case of Frances Brooke's Old Maid / Becoming Dr. Franklin: Benjamin Franklin's Science, Manuscript Circulation, and "Anti-Authorship" in Print / Part III. New Methods for Manuscript Studies -- Amateur Manuscript Fiction in the Archives: An Introduction / The Language of Notation and the Space of Manuscript Notebooks / The Circulation of John Keats's Letters on Land, on Sea, Online / Cooking Hannah Woolley's Printed Recipes from a Manuscript Recipe Book: UPenn Ms. Codex 785 / Andrew O. Winckles -- Beth Fowkes Tobin -- Rachael Scarborough King -- Michelle Levy -- Philip S. Palmer -- Leith Davis -- Kathryn R. King -- Colin T. Ramsey -- Emily C. Friedman -- Collin Jennings -- Brian Rejack -- Marissa Nicosia.

"While scholars have generally focused on the eighteenth century as a 'print culture,' this book examines a range of manuscript practices--from letter writing to note taking to recipe preparation to novel authorship--to show how handwritten texts remained central to the media environment"--



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Manuscripts, English--History--18th century.
Manuscripts, English--History--19th century.
Printing--History.
Authorship--History.
Books and reading--History.
Codicology--Data processing.
Paratext--History.
Intermediality--History.


Electronic Books.

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