Jillian M Hess

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How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and AlbumsHardcover, 4 November 2022

How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums
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Part of Series
Oxford Textual Perspectives
Print Length
336 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published
4 Nov 2022
ISBN-10
0192895311
ISBN-13
9780192895318

Description

Every literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his collection "Fly-Catchers", while George Eliot referred to one of her commonplace books as a "Quarry," and Michael Faraday kept quotations in his "Philosophical Miscellany." Nevertheless, the nineteenth-century commonplace book, along with associated traditions like the scrapbook and album, remain under-studied. This book tells the story of how technological and social changes altered methods for gathering, storing, and organizing information in nineteenth-century Britain. As the commonplace book moved out of the schoolroom and into the home, it took on elements of the friendship album. At the same time, the explosion of print allowed readers to cheaply cut-and-paste extractions rather than copying out quotations by hand. Built on the evidence of over 300 manuscripts, this volume unearths the composition practices of well-known writers such as Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, George Eliot, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, and their less well-known contemporaries. Divided into two sections, the first half of the book contends that methods for organizing knowledge developed in line with the period's dominant epistemic frameworks, while the second half argues that commonplace books helped Romantics and Victorians organize people.

Chapters focus on prominent organizational methods in nineteenth-century commonplacing, often attached to an associated epistemic virtue: diaristic forms and the imagination (Chapter Two); "real time" entries signalling objectivity (Chapter Three); antiquarian remnants, serving as empirical evidence for historical arguments (Chapter Four); communally produced commonplace books that attest to socially constructed knowledge (Chapter Five); and blank spaces in commonplace books of mourning (Chapter Six). Richly illustrated, this book brings an archive of commonplace books, scrapbooks, and albums to the reader.

Product Details

Author:
Jillian M Hess
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
4 November 2022
Dimensions:
20.98 x 14.2 x 2.24 cm
ISBN-10:
0192895311
ISBN-13:
9780192895318
Language:
English
Pages:
336
Weight:
548.85 gm

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