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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levy, Michelle, 1968- author.

Schellenberg, Betty A., author.

Series:

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

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts--History--18th century.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

How and Why to Do Things with Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts

Contents

Introduction

1 Manuscript Culture and Social Authorship in the Eighteenth Century

1.1 Manuscript Formats

1.2 Intermediality

2 Manuscript Verse Miscellanies

2.1 Engaging a Manuscript Poetry Miscellany

2.2 "The Mistake Rectified"

2.3 A Female Literary Tradition in Manuscript?

3 Familiar Correspondences

3.1 The Materiality of Correspondences

3.2 "Laudable Ardor": Philip Yorke and Thomas Birch

3.3 "Minds Are Free to Chuse Their Own Associates": Catherine Talbot and Jemima, Marchioness Grey

3.4 "AValuable Piece to Add to My Invaluable Collection": Elizabeth Montagu

4 Manuscript Circulation and Print Publication

4.1 Manuscript Production

4.2 Manuscript Circulation

4.3 Manuscript and the Printing Process

4.4 The Manuscript Lifecycle

5 Remediating the Manuscript Record

5.1 Archival Remediation

5.2 Remediation beyond the Archive

Coda: Loss, Discovery, and the Importance of Manuscript Studies

References

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781108924313

110892431X

9781108924535

1108924530

9781108921855

110892185X

OCLC:

1287950773