Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain

Michelle Levy

Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
31 March 2020
Pages
288
ISBN
9781474457064

Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain

Michelle Levy

A study of the production and circulation of literary manuscripts in Romantic-era Britain

Offers a detailed examination of the practices of literary manuscript culture, particularly the production, circulation and preservation of manuscripts, based on extensive archival research Demonstrates how literary manuscript culture co-evolved with print culture, in a nuanced study of the interactions between the two media Examines the changing cultural attitudes towards literary manuscripts, and how these changes affected practices and values Surveys the impact of digital media on our access to and understanding of historical manuscripts

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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