Handwriting in early America : a media history /
Handwriting in early America : a media history /
edited by Mark Alan Mattes ; foreword by Karen S�anchez- Eppler
- 1 online resource (xix, 277 pages) : illustrations
- Studies in print culture and the history of the book .
- Studies in print culture and the history of the book. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword. Copybooks and the rescripting of cultural values / Introduction. Toward a media history of handwriting in early America / Part I. Handwriting and the idea of writing. Feathers and quills : New World beasts and the natural history of handwriting / "Vive la plume!" : the pleasures and problems of handwriting pedagogy in the long eighteenth century / Print hand : class, literacy, and the mechanization of writing / Of graphology as a possible science : Edgar Allan Poe's handwriting analysis / The mark of chickwallop / Part II. Handwritten genres. Abigail Adams, letter writing, and the gender politics of history / Doing things with diaries : handwritten genres in early American fiction / Handwriting and the cultivation of taste : lines copied into an African American schoolgirl's friendship album, Philadelphia, 1840 / "Imitation of print" : handwritten performances and intermedial survival in Civil War prison newspapers / Rites of encouragement : cultivating indian reform in Susette La Flesche's friendship album / Part III. Scribal time. Graphite time / Revising a narrative of mental illness : the overwritten diary of a nineteenth-century mental patient / Claiming Bradstreet's hand : the Andover manuscript in critical history / Matter over mind : reading The Bondwoman's Narrative in print and manuscript / William Upcott's autographic mania / Afterword / Karen S�anchez-Eppler ; Mark Alan Mattes ; Danielle Skeehan ; Lisa Maruca ; Patricia Jane Roylance ; Seth Perlow ; Christen Mucher -- Mark Alan Mattes ; Desir�ee Henderson ; Carla L. Peterson ; James Berkey ; Frank Kelderman -- Blake Bronson-Bartlett ; John J. Garcia ; Alan Niles ; Sarah Robbins ; Michelle Levy -- Christopher Hager. Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7. Chapter 8. Chapter 9. Chapter 10. Chapter 11. Chapter 12. Chapter 13. Chapter 14. Chapter 15.
"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 interdisciplinary fields, including manuscript studies, Native American studies, media history, African American studies, book history, bibliography, textual studies, and archive theory. By examining how a culturally diverse set of people grappled with handwriting in their own time and weathered shifting relationships to it, Handwriting in Early America uncovers perspectives that are multiethnic and multiracial, transatlantic and hemispheric, colonial and Indigenous, multilingual and illiterate. Essays describe a future of handwriting as envisioned by practitioners, teachers, and even government officials of this time, revealing the tension between the anxiety of loss and the need to allow for variations going forward"
9781685750169 1685750168
22573/cats5415394 JSTOR
Penmanship, American--History--18th century.
Penmanship, American--History--19th century.
Authorship--History--18th century.
Authorship--History--19th century.
Essays.
Z43 / .H187 2023eb
652/.1097309033
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword. Copybooks and the rescripting of cultural values / Introduction. Toward a media history of handwriting in early America / Part I. Handwriting and the idea of writing. Feathers and quills : New World beasts and the natural history of handwriting / "Vive la plume!" : the pleasures and problems of handwriting pedagogy in the long eighteenth century / Print hand : class, literacy, and the mechanization of writing / Of graphology as a possible science : Edgar Allan Poe's handwriting analysis / The mark of chickwallop / Part II. Handwritten genres. Abigail Adams, letter writing, and the gender politics of history / Doing things with diaries : handwritten genres in early American fiction / Handwriting and the cultivation of taste : lines copied into an African American schoolgirl's friendship album, Philadelphia, 1840 / "Imitation of print" : handwritten performances and intermedial survival in Civil War prison newspapers / Rites of encouragement : cultivating indian reform in Susette La Flesche's friendship album / Part III. Scribal time. Graphite time / Revising a narrative of mental illness : the overwritten diary of a nineteenth-century mental patient / Claiming Bradstreet's hand : the Andover manuscript in critical history / Matter over mind : reading The Bondwoman's Narrative in print and manuscript / William Upcott's autographic mania / Afterword / Karen S�anchez-Eppler ; Mark Alan Mattes ; Danielle Skeehan ; Lisa Maruca ; Patricia Jane Roylance ; Seth Perlow ; Christen Mucher -- Mark Alan Mattes ; Desir�ee Henderson ; Carla L. Peterson ; James Berkey ; Frank Kelderman -- Blake Bronson-Bartlett ; John J. Garcia ; Alan Niles ; Sarah Robbins ; Michelle Levy -- Christopher Hager. Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7. Chapter 8. Chapter 9. Chapter 10. Chapter 11. Chapter 12. Chapter 13. Chapter 14. Chapter 15.
"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 interdisciplinary fields, including manuscript studies, Native American studies, media history, African American studies, book history, bibliography, textual studies, and archive theory. By examining how a culturally diverse set of people grappled with handwriting in their own time and weathered shifting relationships to it, Handwriting in Early America uncovers perspectives that are multiethnic and multiracial, transatlantic and hemispheric, colonial and Indigenous, multilingual and illiterate. Essays describe a future of handwriting as envisioned by practitioners, teachers, and even government officials of this time, revealing the tension between the anxiety of loss and the need to allow for variations going forward"
9781685750169 1685750168
22573/cats5415394 JSTOR
Penmanship, American--History--18th century.
Penmanship, American--History--19th century.
Authorship--History--18th century.
Authorship--History--19th century.
Essays.
Z43 / .H187 2023eb
652/.1097309033