| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 277 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies in print culture and the history of the book |
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Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
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| Contents |
Foreword. Copybooks and the rescripting of cultural values / Karen Sánchez-Eppler ; Introduction. Toward a media history of handwriting in early America / Mark Alan Mattes ; Part I. Handwriting and the idea of writing. Chapter 1. Feathers and quills : New World beasts and the natural history of handwriting / Danielle Skeehan ; Chapter 2. "Vive la plume!" : the pleasures and problems of handwriting pedagogy in the long eighteenth century / Lisa Maruca ; Chapter 3. Print hand : class, literacy, and the mechanization of writing / Patricia Jane Roylance ; Chapter 4. Of graphology as a possible science : Edgar Allan Poe's handwriting analysis / Seth Perlow ; Chapter 5. The mark of chickwallop / Christen Mucher -- Part II. Handwritten genres. Chapter 6. Abigail Adams, letter writing, and the gender politics of history / Mark Alan Mattes ; Chapter 7. Doing things with diaries : handwritten genres in early American fiction / Desirée Henderson ; Chapter 8. Handwriting and the cultivation of taste : lines copied into an African American schoolgirl's friendship album, Philadelphia, 1840 / Carla L. Peterson ; Chapter 9. "Imitation of print" : handwritten performances and intermedial survival in Civil War prison newspapers / James Berkey ; Chapter 10. Rites of encouragement : cultivating indian reform in Susette La Flesche's friendship album / Frank Kelderman -- Part III. Scribal time. Chapter 11. Graphite time / Blake Bronson-Bartlett ; Chapter 12. Revising a narrative of mental illness : the overwritten diary of a nineteenth-century mental patient / John J. Garcia ; Chapter 13. Claiming Bradstreet's hand : the Andover manuscript in critical history / Alan Niles ; Chapter 14. Matter over mind : reading The Bondwoman's Narrative in print and manuscript / Sarah Robbins ; Chapter 15. William Upcott's autographic mania / Michelle Levy -- Afterword / Christopher Hager |
| Summary |
"As digital communication has become dominant, commentators have declared that handwriting is a thing of the past, a relic of an earlier age. This volume of original essays makes it clear that anxiety around handwriting has existed for centuries and explores writing practices from a variety of interdisciplinary fields, including manuscript studies, Native American studies, media history, African American studies, book history, bibliography, textual studies, and archive theory. By examining how a culturally diverse set of people grappled with handwriting in their own time and weathered shifting relationships to it, Handwriting in Early America uncovers perspectives that are multiethnic and multiracial, transatlantic and hemispheric, colonial and Indigenous, multilingual and illiterate. Essays describe a future of handwriting as envisioned by practitioners, teachers, and even government officials of this time, revealing the tension between the anxiety of loss and the need to allow for variations going forward" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 18, 2023) |
| Subject |
Penmanship, American -- History -- 18th century
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Penmanship, American -- History -- 19th century
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Authorship -- History -- 18th century
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Authorship -- History -- 19th century
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Authorship.
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Penmanship, American.
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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History.
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Essays.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mattes, Mark Alan, 1982- editor.
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Sánchez-Eppler, Karen, writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781685750169 |
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1685750168 |
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