Victorian Paper Art and Craft - Writers and Their Materials

Studies the way that authors in nineteenth-century Britain used the materials of writing (and reading, drawing, note-taking, and handicraft) for inspiration, experimentation, subordination, and creative composition, with a focus on Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Mary Shelley.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Marginal Scribbling and Defacing


• 2: Collecting and Recollecting


• 3: Researching and Performing


• 4: Reusing, Tearing, and Folding


• 5: Crafting


• Afterword

About the author

Deborah Lutz is the Thruston B. Morton Endowed Chair of English at the University of Louisville. She has published four books, most recently The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects (Norton, 2015) and Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2015). She is the editor of the Norton Critical Editions of Jane Eyre and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the recipient of an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.

Summary

Studies the way that authors in nineteenth-century Britain used the materials of writing (and reading, drawing, note-taking, and handicraft) for inspiration, experimentation, subordination, and creative composition, with a focus on Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Mary Shelley.

Additional text

Deborah Lutz's Victorian Paper Art and Craft: Writers and Their Materials offers exciting insights into the folds, tears, snipped-out holes, and fastenings of canonical and personal texts.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Lutz, Deborah (Thruston B. Morton Endowed Chair of Lutz, Lutz Deborah
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.10.2022
• EAN: 9780198858799
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885879-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form