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.

Table des matières

• 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

A propos de l'auteur

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

Résumé

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.

Texte suppl.

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jillian M. Hess, Jillian M. (Associate Professor of English Hess
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780192895318
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289531-8
• Pages: 336
• Thème: Oxford Textual Perspectives
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; 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