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.

Sommario

• 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

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Testo aggiuntivo

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jillian M. Hess, Jillian M. (Associate Professor of English Hess
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780192895318
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289531-8
• Pagine: 336
• Serie: Oxford Textual Perspectives
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; 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