After print : eighteenth-century manuscript cultures / edited by Rachael Scarborough King.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

King, Rachael Scarborough, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, English--History--18th century.

Manuscripts, English.

Manuscripts, English--History--17th century.

Manuscripts, English--History--19th century.

Printing--History.

Printing.

Authorship--History.

Authorship.

Books and reading--History.

Books and reading.

Codicology--Data processing.

Codicology.

Paratext--History.

Paratext.

Intermediality--History.

Intermediality.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.

Summary:

"While scholars have generally focused on the eighteenth century as a 'print culture,' this book examines a range of manuscript practices--from letter writing to note taking to recipe preparation to novel authorship--to show how handwritten texts remained central to the media environment"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Coteries, Communities, Collaborations: Manuscript Publication

"Pray for the Unworthy Scribbler": The Textual Cultures of Early Methodist Women / Andrew O. Winckles

Collecting John Abbot's Natural History Notes and Drawings / Beth Fowkes Tobin

A "Female Accomplishment"?: Femininity, Privacy, and Eighteenth-Century Letter-Writing Norms / Rachael Scarborough King

Bookmaking and Archiving in Dorothy Wordsworth's Notebooks / Michelle Levy

Part II. The Manuscript-Print Interface

Paratextual Readers: Manuscript Verse in Printed Books of the Long Eighteenth Century / Philip S. Palmer

Mediating the "Sudden & Surprising Revolution": Official Manuscript Newsletters and the Revolution of 1688 / Leith Davis

Manuscript, Print, and the Affective Turn: The Case of Frances Brooke's Old Maid / Kathryn R. King

Becoming Dr. Franklin: Benjamin Franklin's Science, Manuscript Circulation, and "Anti-Authorship" in Print / Colin T. Ramsey

Part III. New Methods for Manuscript Studies

Amateur Manuscript Fiction in the Archives: An Introduction / Emily C. Friedman

The Language of Notation and the Space of Manuscript Notebooks / Collin Jennings

The Circulation of John Keats's Letters on Land, on Sea, Online / Brian Rejack

Cooking Hannah Woolley's Printed Recipes from a Manuscript Recipe Book: UPenn Ms. Codex 785 / Marissa Nicosia.

Notes:

"This volume originated as a double panel at the 2014 Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual meeting in Montreal and as the conference 'After Print: Manuscripts in the Eighteenth Century' held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on April 24, 2015"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: After print

ISBN:

9780813943480

9780813943473

0813943477

0813943485

OCLC:

1123234951

Publisher Number:

99985068096