Handwriting in Early America : A Media History /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Mattes, Mark Alan 1982- (Editor , HerausgeberIn.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst University of Massachusetts Press 2023
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Essays.
Authorship > United States > History > 19th century.
Authorship > United States > History > 18th century.
Penmanship, American > History > 19th century.
Penmanship, American > History > 18th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Karen Sánchez-Eppler
  • Introduction: Toward a Media History of Handwriting in Early America / Mark Alan Mattes
  • Part I: Handwriting and the Idea of Writing
  • Feathers and Quills New World Beasts and the Natural History of Handwriting / Danielle Skeehan
  • "Viva La Plume!" The Pleasures and Problems of Handwriting Pedagogy in the Long Eighteenth Century / Lisa Maruca
  • Print Hand Class, Literacy and The Mechanization of Writing / Patricia Jane Roylance
  • Of Graphology as a Possible Science Edgar Allan Poe's Handwriting Analysis / Seth Perlow
  • The Mark of Chickwallopp / Christen Mucher
  • Part II: Handwritten Genres
  • Abigail Adams, Letter Writing, and the Gender Politics of History / Mark Alan Mattes
  • Doing Things with Diaries Handwritten Genres in Early American Fiction / Desiree Henderson
  • Handwriting and the Cultivation of Taste Lines Copied into an African American Schoolgirl's Friendship Album, Philadelphia, 1840 / Carla L. Peterson
  • "Imitation of Print:" Handwritten Performances and Intermedial Survival in U.S. Civil War Prison Newspapers / James Berkey
  • Rites of Encouragement Cultivating Indian Reform in Susette La Flesche's Friendship Album / Frank Kelderman
  • Part III: Scribal Time
  • Claiming Bradstreet's Hand: The Andover Manuscript in Critical History / Alan Niles
  • Graphite Time / Blake Bronson-Bartlett
  • Revising a Narrative of Mental Illness: The Overwritten Diary of a Nineteenth-Century Mental Patient / John J. Garcia
  • Matter over Mind: Reading The Bondwoman's Narrative in Print and Manuscript / Sarah Robbins
  • William Upcott's Autographic Mania / Michelle Levy
  • Afterword / Christopher Hager.

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