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A study of the production and circulation of literary manuscripts in Romantic-era Britain
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.
Michelle Levy is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University.
List of contents
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Intentionality and the Romantic Literary Manuscript; 3. Literary Reviews and the Reception of Manuscript Culture; 4. Anna Barbauld's Poetic Career in Script and Print; 5. Lord Byron, Manuscript Poet; 6. Jane Austen's Fiction in Manuscript; 7. Script's Afterlives; Afterword: Blake's Digitized Printed Script; Works Cited.
About the author
Michelle Levy is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. She has published extensively on women writers, print and manuscript culture, book history and digital humanities. She also directs the Women's Print History Project, 1750-1836, a comprehensive bibliographical database of women's books.
