Title The material culture of writing / edited by Cydney Alexis and Hannah J. Rule

Published Logan : Utah State University Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 247 pages) Contents Introduction : the material culture of writing / Cydney Alexis and Hannah J. Rule -- The symbolic life of the Moleskine notebook : material goods as a tableau for writing identity performance / Cydney Alexis -- Black ink, white bodies : gender, race and writing instruments / Desirée Henderson -- Indexical heirlooms in immigrant literacy history narratives / Jenny Krichevsky -- Material motherhood : the disconnect of science and consumerism from nostalgia in baby books / Emilie Merrigan -- New writing in new spaces : 'social writing' in an interdisciplinary academic makerspace / Debby Andrews -- 'Every convenience for a man of letters' : Thomas Jefferson's writing suite / Diane Ehrenpreis -- Assembling the file, or, How conservation works / Anne Mackay -- The Victorian visitors' book as genre and artifact / Kevin James -- Gendered letterwriting in Renaissance England : genre as sociomaterial action / Keri Epps Summary "This book opens up avenues for understanding writing through scholarship in material culture studies. Contributors each interrogate an object, set of objects, or writing environment to reveal the sociomaterial contexts from which writing emerges. Close study of such artifacts offers up the potential for inquiry into writing artifacts and environments"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 25, 2022) Subject Written communication -- Social aspects Writing materials and instruments -- Social aspects Authorship -- Technique Writing -- Social aspects Material culture -- Study and teaching Authorship -- Technique Material culture -- Study and teaching Writing -- Social aspects Written communication -- Social aspects Form Electronic book Author Alexis, Cydney, editor Rule, Hannah J., 1981- editor. LC no. 2022014507 ISBN 1646422309 9781646422302

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