TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levy,Michelle
AU  - Schellenberg,Betty A.
TI  - How and why to do things with eighteenth-century manuscripts
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in eighteenth-century connections,
SN  - 9781108921855 (ebook)
AV  - Z105 .L48 2021
U1  - 091 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Manuscripts
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Nov 2021); Open Access title
N2  - This Element examines eighteenth-century manuscript forms, their functions in the literary landscape of their time, and the challenges and practices of manuscript study today. Drawing on both literary studies and book history, Levy and Schellenberg offer a guide to the principal forms of literary activity carried out in handwritten manuscripts produced in the first era of print dominance, 1730-1820. After an opening survey of sociable literary culture and its manuscript forms, numerous case studies explore what can be learned from three manuscript types: the verse miscellany, the familiar correspondence, and manuscripts of literary works that were printed. A final section considers issues of manuscript remediation up to the present, focusing particularly on digital remediation. The Element concludes with a brief case study of the movement of Phillis Wheatley's poems between manuscript and print. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108921855
ER  -