Book ID: CBB317611813

How and Why to Do Things with Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts (2021)

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Michelle Levy (Author)
Betty A. Schellenberg (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 98
Language: English

This Element examines eighteenth-century manuscript forms, their functions in the literary landscape of their time, and the challenges and practices of manuscript study today. Drawing on both literary studies and book history, Levy and Schellenberg offer a guide to the principal forms of literary activity carried out in handwritten manuscripts produced in the first era of print dominance, 1730-1820. After an opening survey of sociable literary culture and its manuscript forms, numerous case studies explore what can be learned from three manuscript types: the verse miscellany, the familiar correspondence, and manuscripts of literary works that were printed. A final section considers issues of manuscript remediation up to the present, focusing particularly on digital remediation. The Element concludes with a brief case study of the movement of Phillis Wheatley's poems between manuscript and print. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Authors & Contributors
Böhme, Katrin
Jones, Rajkumari Williamson
Luzzini, Francesco
Middleton, Peter
Milighetti, Maria Chiara
Müller-Wille, Staffan
Journals
Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Polhem: Tidskrift för Teknikhistoria
Publishers
Princeton University
Palgrave Macmillan
Prometheus Books
University of Chicago Press
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Concepts
Literary analysis
Poetry and poetics
Science and literature
Manuscripts
Correspondence and corresponding
Books
People
Blake, William
Dalton, John
Alighieri, Dante
Frost, Robert
Hardy, Thomas
Kepler, Johannes
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
20th century
Early modern
17th century
20th century, early
Places
Italy
Europe
Berlin (Germany)
Ireland
Austria
Sweden
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