How and Why to Do Things with Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts

by Michelle Levy and Betty A. Schellenberg

This Element examines eighteenth-century manuscript forms, their functions in the literary landscape of their time, and the challenges and practices of manuscript study today. Drawing on both literary studies and book history, Levy and Schellenberg offer a guide to the principal forms of literary activity carried out in handwritten manuscripts produced in the first era of print dominance, 1730-1820. After an opening survey of sociable literary culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108926134
• ISBN13: 9781108926133
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"