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Work in Hand - Script, Print, and Writing, 1690-1840

English · Hardback

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A volume that examines the relationship between manual writing and print and how script evolved between 1590 and 1840.

List of contents










  • Introduction

  • 1: Seeing Script in Print

  • 2: Round Hand Character

  • 3: Round Hand's Dominions

  • 4: Johnson's Character

  • 5: Printing the Author's Hand

  • 6: Edgeworth's Autograph

  • 7: Factory Hands

  • Postscript



About the author

Aileen Douglas was born in Dublin and did her undergraduate work at Trinity College Dublin. She holds a PhD from Princeton University. For several years she taught at Washington University in St. Louis before returning to Ireland to join the School of English, TCD. Her research interests and publications focus on eighteenth-century print culture, the materiality of writing, women's writing in the long eighteenth century, and Irish writing. She served as Dean of Undergraduate Studies (2008-2011) and is a fellow of Trinity College Dublin.

Summary

A volume that examines the relationship between manual writing and print and how script evolved between 1590 and 1840.

Additional text

Is handwriting history? Trubek's and Douglas's histories of penmanship illuminate the complicated feelings - indignation and nostalgic regret, tinctured, maybe, by relief - this question provokes. Readers mourning handwriting won't find comfort in these books. But they will learn about the social preconditions that shaped the romanticizing of the writing hand and its work in the first place.

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