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Handwriting in early America : a media history /
"As digital communication has become dominant, commentators have declared that handwriting is a thing of the past, a relic of an earlier age. This volume of original essays makes it clear that anxiety around handwriting has existed for centuries and explores writing practices from a variety of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2023]
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| Colección: | Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword. Copybooks and the rescripting of cultural values / Karen Sánchez-Eppler ; Introduction. Toward a media history of handwriting in early America / Mark Alan Mattes ; Part I. Handwriting and the idea of writing. Chapter 1. Feathers and quills : New World beasts and the natural history of handwriting / Danielle Skeehan ; Chapter 2. "Vive la plume!" : the pleasures and problems of handwriting pedagogy in the long eighteenth century / Lisa Maruca ; Chapter 3. Print hand : class, literacy, and the mechanization of writing / Patricia Jane Roylance ; Chapter 4. Of graphology as a possible science : Edgar Allan Poe's handwriting analysis / Seth Perlow ; Chapter 5. The mark of chickwallop / Christen Mucher
- Part II. Handwritten genres. Chapter 6. Abigail Adams, letter writing, and the gender politics of history / Mark Alan Mattes ; Chapter 7. Doing things with diaries : handwritten genres in early American fiction / Desirée Henderson ; Chapter 8. Handwriting and the cultivation of taste : lines copied into an African American schoolgirl's friendship album, Philadelphia, 1840 / Carla L. Peterson ; Chapter 9. "Imitation of print" : handwritten performances and intermedial survival in Civil War prison newspapers / James Berkey ; Chapter 10. Rites of encouragement : cultivating indian reform in Susette La Flesche's friendship album / Frank Kelderman
- Part III. Scribal time. Chapter 11. Graphite time / Blake Bronson-Bartlett ; Chapter 12. Revising a narrative of mental illness : the overwritten diary of a nineteenth-century mental patient / John J. Garcia ; Chapter 13. Claiming Bradstreet's hand : the Andover manuscript in critical history / Alan Niles ; Chapter 14. Matter over mind : reading The Bondwoman's Narrative in print and manuscript / Sarah Robbins ; Chapter 15. William Upcott's autographic mania / Michelle Levy
- Afterword / Christopher Hager.