Title How Romantics and Victorians organized information : commonplace books, scrapbooks, and albums / Jillian M. Hess

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 303 pages) : illustrations Series Oxford textual perspectives Oxford textual perspectives. Contents List of Figures -- Introduction: The Commonplace Method -- 1. Anatomy of the Commonplace -- Locke's Legacy -- Books of Scraps -- Personal Organizational Systems -- PART I. ORGANIZING IDEAS -- 2. Commonplace Books of the Imagination -- The Notebooks: An Overview -- Liber Aureus: Coleridge, the Student -- The Diary and the Romantic Paradox -- The Fell-Walking Pocket-Books: Coleridge, the Poet of Nature -- Referentiary: Coleridge the Philosopher -- The Fly-Catchers: Coleridge, the Christian -- 3. Laboratory Commonplace Books -- "Nothing Exists but Thoughts": Davy's Laboratory Notes -- The Book Seller's Apprentice: Faraday's Philosophical Miscellany -- Chemical Notes -- Faraday's Cut-up Index -- 4. Commonplace Books of History -- Collecting Ballads: Remediating Orality -- Scott's "Rebellious Papers" -- Eliot's Quarry -- Scrapbooks, Scrapboxes, and Historical Empiricism -- PART II. ORGANIZING PEOPLE -- 5. Social Commonplace Books -- Epistemology of the Lady's Album -- Autographs -- Keats's Hand -- Milton's Hair -- The Sisterhood of Slade -- 6. Commonplace Books of Mourning -- Audrey Tennyson's "Talks and Walks" and "Illness, etc." -- "A Hand that Can be Clasp'd no More" -- Empty Pages -- "Common is the Commonplace" -- "The footsteps of his life in mine": Queen Victoria's Album Consolativum -- "The living soul was flash'd on mine" -- Coda -- Manuscript Sources -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Every literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his collection "Fly-Catchers", while George Eliot referred to one of her commonplace books as a "Quarry," and Michael Faraday kept quotations in his "Philosophical Miscellany." Nevertheless, the nineteenth-century commonplace book, along with associated traditions like the scrapbook and album, remain under-studied. This book tells the story of how technological and social changes altered methods for gathering, storing, and organizing information in nineteenth-century Britain. As the commonplace book moved out of the schoolroom and into the home, it took on elements of the friendship album. At the same time, the explosion of print allowed readers to cheaply cut-and-paste extractions rather than copying out quotations by hand. Built on the evidence of over 300 manuscripts, this volume unearths the composition practices of well-known writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, George Eliot, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, and their less well-known contemporaries. Divided into two sections, the first half of the book contends that methods for organizing knowledge developed in line with the period's dominant epistemic frameworks, while the second half argues that commonplace books helped Romantics and Victorians organize people. Chapters focus on prominent organizational methods in nineteenth-century commonplacing, often attached to an associated epistemic virtue: diaristic forms and the imagination (Chapter Two); "real time" entries signalling objectivity (Chapter Three); antiquarian remnants, serving as empirical evidence for historical arguments (Chapter Four); communally produced commonplace books that attest to socially constructed knowledge (Chapter Five); and blank spaces in commonplace books of mourning (Chapter Six). Richly illustrated, this book brings an archive of commonplace books, scrapbooks, and albums to the reader Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed July13, 2023) Subject Commonplace books -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Information organization -- Great Britain -- 19th century English literature -- 19th century -- History Scrapbooks -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century English literature Commonplace books Information organization Intellectual life Scrapbooks SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056856 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192648488 0192648489 9780191916137 0191916137 9780192648495 0192648497

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