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Record Nr.

UNINA9910585959703321

Autore

Levy Michelle <1968->

Titolo

How and why to do things with eighteenth-century manuscripts / / Michelle Levy, Betty A. Schellenberg [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge University Press, 2021

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-108-92431-X

1-108-92453-0

1-108-92185-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (89 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge elements. Elements in eighteenth-century connections, , 2632-5578

Disciplina

091

Soggetti

Manuscripts - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Nov 2021).

Sommario/riassunto

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.