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Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain / Michelle Levy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSRPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (310 p.) : 10 B/W illustrations 17 colour illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474457064
  • 9781474457088
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9145 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 -- Plates
Summary: A study of the production and circulation of literary manuscripts in Romantic-era BritainOffers a detailed examination of the practices of literary manuscript culture, particularly the production, circulation and preservation of manuscriptsDemonstrates how literary manuscript culture co-evolved with print culture, in a nuanced study of the interactions between the two mediaExamines the changing cultural attitudes towards literary manuscripts, and how these changes affected practices and valuesSurveys the impact of digital media on our access to and understanding of historical manuscriptsThis 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 -- Plates

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A study of the production and circulation of literary manuscripts in Romantic-era BritainOffers a detailed examination of the practices of literary manuscript culture, particularly the production, circulation and preservation of manuscriptsDemonstrates how literary manuscript culture co-evolved with print culture, in a nuanced study of the interactions between the two mediaExamines the changing cultural attitudes towards literary manuscripts, and how these changes affected practices and valuesSurveys the impact of digital media on our access to and understanding of historical manuscriptsThis 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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