Book ID: CBB306633874

After Print: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures (2019)

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The eighteenth century has generally been understood as the Age of Print, when the new medium revolutionized the literary world and rendered manuscript culture obsolete. After Print, however, reveals that the story isn’t so simple. Manuscript remained a vital, effective, and even preferred forum for professional and amateur authors working across fields such as literature, science, politics, religion, and business through the Romantic period. The contributors to this book offer a survey of the manuscript culture of the time, discussing handwritten culinary recipes, the poetry of John Keats, Benjamin Franklin’s letters about his electrical experiments, and more. Collectively, the essays demonstrate that what has often been seen as the amateur, feminine, and aristocratic world of handwritten exchange thrived despite the spread of the printed word. In so doing, they undermine the standard print-manuscript binary and advocate for a critical stance that better understands the important relationship between the media. Bringing together work from literary scholars, librarians, and digital humanists, the diverse essays in After Print offer a new model for archival research, pulling from an exciting variety of fields to demonstrate that manuscript culture did not die out but, rather, may have been revitalized by the advent of printing.

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Authors & Contributors
Vermeir, Koen
Hans Aili
Tapti Roy
Orr, Leah
Lazo, Rodrigo
Gielas, Anna
Concepts
Communication of scientific ideas
Communication within scientific contexts
Printing industry
Print culture
Science and culture
Science and society
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Early modern
17th century
16th century
Modern
Places
Americas
Spain
Great Britain
Philadelphia, PA
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Washington, D. C. (U.S.)
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