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.
About the AuthorMichelle Levy, Professor in the Department of English, Simon Fraser University.
Book InformationISBN 9781474457071
Author Michelle LevyFormat Paperback
Page Count 310
Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press