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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Nicole Howard;
(2022)
Loath to Print: The Reluctant Scientific Author, 1500–1750
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M. A. Taylor;
(2021)
The unusual printing and publishing arrangements of Hugh Miller (1802–1856)
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Leah Orr;
(2017)
Novel Ventures: Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690-1730
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Tapti Roy;
(2018)
Print and Publishing in Colonial Bengal: The Journey of Bidyasundar
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Vermeir, Koen;
Margócsy, Dániel;
(2012)
States of Secrecy: An Introduction
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Kevin Lambert;
(2021)
Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
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Vermeir, Koen;
(2012)
Openness versus Secrecy? Historical and Historiographical Remarks
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Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra;
(2018)
Bartolomé Inga’s Mining Technologies: Indians, Science, Cyphered Secrecy, and Modernity in the New World
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Elders, Willem;
(2013)
Josquin des Prez and His Musical Legacy: An Introductory Guide
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Lin Chalozin-Dovrat;
(2019)
The History of SPACE between Science and Ordinary Language: What Can Words Tell Us about Conceptual Change?
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Laura Miller;
(2018)
Reading Popular Newtonianism: Print, the Principia, and the Dissemination of Newtonian Science
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Secord, James A.;
(2007)
How Scientific Conversation Became Shop Talk
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Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez;
(2023)
Language, Science and Globalization in the Eighteenth Century
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Fournier-Antonini, Guenièvre;
(2012)
Barcelone, Gênes et Marseille: Cartographies et images, XVIe-XIXe siècle
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Anna K. Sagal;
(2021)
Botanical Entanglements: Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England
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Aileen Fyfe;
Anna Gielas;
(2020)
Introduction: Editorship and the Editing of Scientific Journals, 1750–1950
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Hackmann, Willem;
(2007)
The Iconography of Early Electricity
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Hans Bots;
(2018)
De Republiek der Letteren: De Europese intellectuele wereld 1500-1760
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Rodrigo Lazo;
(2020)
Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite
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Theodore W. Pietsch;
Hans Aili;
(2023)
Peter Artedi's “Manuscriptum ichthyologicum”, a source for Albertus Seba's Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio (1759)
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