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Author:

Levy, Michelle, 1968- author.

Title:

Literary manuscript culture in Romantic Britain / Michelle Levy.

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

x, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Manuscripts, English.
Books--England--History--19th century.
Romanticism--Great Britain--History--19th century.
English literature--History--England--History--19th century.
Authors and publishers--England--History--19th century.
Book industries and trade--England--History--19th century.
Authors and publishers.
Book industries and trade.
Books.
English literature--Publishing.
Manuscripts, English.
Romanticism.
England.
Great Britain.
Englisch
Handschrift
Manuskript
Romantik
Gro©britannien
1800-1899
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-289) and index.

Contents:

6. Script's Afterlives. 2. Literary Reviews and the Reception of Manuscript Culture -- 3. Anna Barbauld's Poetic Career in Script and Print -- 4. Lord Byron, Manuscript Poet -- 5. Jane Austen's Fiction in Manuscript -- 6. Script's Afterlives.

Summary:

This book examines how manuscript practices interacted with an expanding print marketplace to nurture and transform the period's literary culture. It unearths the alternative histories manuscripts tell us about British Romantic literary culture, describing the practices by which handwritten documents were written, shared, altered and preserved, and explores the functions they served as instruments of expression and sociability. By demonstrating how literary manuscript culture co-evolved with print culture, this study illuminates the complex entanglements between the media of script and print.

Series:

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism

ISBN:

1474457061
9781474457064

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1117547786

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)