How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information - Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums

This volume studies an important manuscript form of nineteenth-century England: the commonplace book and its descendent, the scrapbook. It explores the tradition of managing information in nineteenth-century England and excavates notes and drafts of the most important works in Romantic and Victorian literature.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Anatomy of the Commonplace


• Part I. Organizing Ideas


• 2: Commonplace Books of the Imagination


• 3: Laboratory Commonplace Books


• 4: Commonplace Books of History


• Part II. Organizing People


• 5: Social Commonplace Books


• 6: Commonplace Books of Mourning


• Coda

About the author

Jillian M. Hess is Associate Professor of English at Bronx Community College, CUNY.

Summary

This volume studies an important manuscript form of nineteenth-century England: the commonplace book and its descendent, the scrapbook. It explores the tradition of managing information in nineteenth-century England and excavates notes and drafts of the most important works in Romantic and Victorian literature.

Additional text

Readers interested in book history, media archeology, the material cultures of reading, and the evolution of the commonplace tradition over the course of the nineteenth century will return to this book over and over again.

Product details

• Authors: Jillian M. Hess, Jillian M. (Associate Professor of English Hess
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780192895318
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289531-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Oxford Textual Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Material Culture, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers