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Jane Barker, Manuscript Culture, and the Epistemology of the Microscope

Rachel Mann
Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 50–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-7280290
Published: 01 January 2019
...Rachel Mann Through the figures of Jane Barker, a gentlewoman who lived from 1652 to 1732, and whose work was both circulated in manuscripts as well as print, and Robert Hooke, curator to the Royal Society, this essay shows that experimental science and manuscript culture were premised...
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Manuscript Devotional Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Convents: A Case Study

Joanne E. Myers
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 113–133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951350
Published: 01 January 2024
... Clares included not only printed works but also numerous manuscripts—many of them translations—that fostered a devotional culture drawing on diverse strands of continental Catholicism. Sister Cecily Joseph's prayer books, often highly miscellaneous in their contents, shed light on how manuscripts were...
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“The Tennis Ball of Fortune”: Print, Manuscript, and Provincial Literacies in The Chronicles of John Cannon

Abigail Williams, Anna Marar
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 28–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951290
Published: 01 January 2024
... Chronicles also helps us connect the study of the manuscript book to a concern with the social dimensions of manuscript forms in a community of mixed literacies. Cannon's copying and writing became an important performance of professional competence in a culture of amateur literary production. As a case...
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Cultural Difference in George Macartney’s An Embassy to China, 1792–94

Greg Clingham
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2875320
Published: 01 April 2015
... to be of porcelain and tiles of various moulds and colours. (Embassy, 75) Cultural Difference in An Embassy to China, 1792–94   5 Figure 1. Manuscript page from Macartney’s journal in the Charles W. Wason Collection (doc. 252), Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell...
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Afterword

Margaret J. M. Ezell
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 262–267.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951422
Published: 01 January 2024
... arguing too strenuously for seeing manuscript culture as an important medium in later periods “after print.” From my perspective, late seventeenth-century manuscript books were a poor fit for twentieth-century publication practices and existing genres. Often the multiplicity of owners, writers...
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“Bookmaking Out of the Remains of the Dead”: George Ballard’s Memoirs of Several Ladies (1752)

Melanie Bigold
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 28–46.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2645927
Published: 01 April 2014
.... 39. Daniel Woolf, The Social Circulation of the Past: English Historical Culture, 1500   –  ​1730 (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2003). 46  Eighteenth-Century Life 40. David McKitterick, Print, Manuscript, and the Search for Order, 1450   –  ​1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2003), 183 – ​86...
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Introduction: The Manuscript Book in the Long Eighteenth Century

Alexis Chema, Betty A. Schellenberg
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 1–5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951278
Published: 01 January 2024
...Alexis Chema; Betty A. Schellenberg [email protected] [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 This special issue of Eighteenth-Century Life on the manuscript book is, first and foremost, a celebration of the sheer vitality, variety, and cultural...
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Challenging Eisenstein: Recent Studies in Print Culture

Nicholas Hudson
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 83–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-26-2-83
Published: 01 April 2002
...’ broad study. According to a Whig history of print culture (one rehearsed by some of the books reviewed here), the elitist world of manuscript writing, dominated by coteries of high-ranking gentlemen and genteel women, gave way in the Restoration...
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The First Information Age: Women and the Making of the English Literary Canon

Susan Carlile
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 121–126.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-8794011
Published: 01 January 2021
... expertly shows is that a simple sequential model of media succession is inadequate (80). While we think of print as an upwardly mobile form, there was actually an important interdependence, strengthening, and even rejuvenation of some elements of manuscript culture in the second half of the eighteenth...
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“Let Genius Still This Glorious Object Own”: Naming, Signing, Authoring, and Owning in the Manuscript Verse Miscellany

Betty A. Schellenberg
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 50–71.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951314
Published: 01 January 2024
... was more widely accessible than it had ever been; while continuing to exhibit the active, participatory values of scribal culture, it was also driven by a widely held belief in the importance of cultivating and demonstrating one's taste as a reader. Manuscript miscellanies offer palpable, if enigmatic...
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: New Insights from the Digital Miscellanies Index

Kathleen Lawton-Trask
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 76–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-3695945
Published: 01 January 2017
... Wortley Montagu print culture attribution reputation women's writing Court Poems Alexander Pope Edmund Curll manuscript culture • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: New Insights from the Digital Miscellanies Index Kathleen Lawton...
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Owning Ephemerality

Emily Hodgson Anderson
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 100–105.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-11118352
Published: 01 April 2024
... in the eighteenth century to mean the same thing as “ownership”—with the significant caveat that the only forms of authorship protected under this new law were print based. What then, Wessel asks, of forms of authorship that were not geared toward publication? What then of the manuscript culture that flourished...
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Biographies in the Album: Reading Lives between the Lines

Glynis Ridley
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 92–112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951338
Published: 01 January 2024
..., “Commonplace-Book Stylistics: Romantic and Victorian Technologies of Reading and Writing” (unpublished PhD dissertation, Stanford Univ., 2012), 37 and 64. 3. Samantha Matthews, Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture: Poetry, Manuscript, Print, 1780 – 1850 (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2020), 8. 4...
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Studies in British and American Epistolary Culture

Eve Tavor Bannet
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 89–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-1336817
Published: 01 September 2011
.... There is certainly truth in this: there were letters everywhere in print and manuscript culture, not only in letter manuals, and some parents were evidently equipped to instruct their own children. But virtually all the letter writers in this book who satisfy Whyman’s criteria for “epistolary literacy...
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Authoring the “Author of My Being” in Memoirs of Doctor Burney

Cassandra Ulph
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 152–169.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-4384603
Published: 01 April 2018
... Schellenberg has observed, allowed her to separate her work from her private self by eschew- ing the problematic reliance of manuscript culture on personal patronage.6 But while in some senses print publication helped Burney overcome the limitations of a gendered artistic culture, it also positioned her...
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“Where Are Your Books?”: William Wordsworth's Commonplaces

Alexis Chema
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 217–235.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951398
Published: 01 January 2024
...: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures , ed. Rachael Scarborough King (Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia, 2020), 95 – 120. For a discussion of handmade books by the daughters of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, see Samantha Matthews, “ ‘Here You May Trace a Pigmy Hand, / And There a Giant Strength...
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“A Piece of History the Most Remarkable & Interesting That Ever Happened in Any Age or Country”: “The Lyon in Mourning” Manuscript of Robert Forbes

Leith Davis
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 159–182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951374
Published: 01 January 2024
... in Mourning” can also be considered an intermedial text consisting of curated items associated with oral, manuscript, print, and material cultures. Forbes conducted numerous oral interviews with eyewitnesses, frequently inviting potential informants to his residence at the Citadel and writing down...
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“A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal

Michelle Levy
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 183–216.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951386
Published: 01 January 2024
... Peters archive studies manuscript circulation print and periodical culture textual recovery Just over two months after Phillis Wheatley Peters's death on 5 December 1784, her husband, John Peters, advertised in the Independent Chronicle and Universal Advertiser for the immediate return...
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Before the Reporter's Notebook: The Oblong Book in the Long Eighteenth Century

Ashley Cataldo
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 134–158.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951362
Published: 01 January 2024
... stock. 27. See James Daybell, The Material Letter in Early Modern England: Manuscript Letters and the Culture and Practices of Letter-Writing, 1512 – 1635 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), for a discussion of earlier scriveners’ writing practices. See also David D. Hall, Ways of Writing...
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Writing Himself into a Profession: Knowledge, Skills, and Community in John Martin's “Several Receipts for the Use of Mankind”

Bénédicte Miyamoto, Faith D. Acker
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 6–27.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951302
Published: 01 January 2024
...Bénédicte Miyamoto; Faith D. Acker John Martin wrote “Several Receipts for the Use of Mankind” (1690–96) mainly by copying out printed texts at a time when he was successfully converting from plasterer to the more upwardly mobile profession of painter. In his manuscript, a near‐complete fair copy...
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