Literary manuscript culture in Romantic Britain
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 pr…
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- Full title :Literary manuscript culture in Romantic Britain / Michelle Levy.
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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.
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- Publication Date:©2020
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
- Place of Publication:Edinburgh, Scotland
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2020
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (chiefly color) ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781474457064, 1474457061
- oclc:on1117547786
- LC Classification:PR457
- Dewey Decimal:820.9/145
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