Literary manuscript culture in Romantic Britain
- [Place of publication not identified] EDINBURGH UNIV Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource
- Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Intentionality and the Romantic Literary Manuscript -- 2. Literary Reviews and the Reception of Manuscript Culture -- 3. Anna Barbauld's Poetic Career in Script and Print -- 4. Lord Byron, Manuscript Poet -- 5. Jane Austen's Fiction in Manuscript -- 6. Script's Afterlives -- Afterword: Blake's Digitised Printed Script -- References -- Index
"This book examines how manuscript practices interacted with an expanding print marketplace to nurture and transform the period's literary culture. It unearths the alternative histories manuscripts tell us about British Romantic literary culture, describing the practices by which handwritten documents were written, shared, altered and preserved, and explores the functions they served as instruments of expression and sociability. By demonstrating how literary manuscript culture co-evolved with print culture, this study illuminates the complex entanglements between the media of script and print."--Publisher description.