Aileen Douglas

Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690-1840

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Produktbeschreibung

A volume that examines the relationship between manual writing and print and how script evolved between 1590 and 1840.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Textual Perspectives
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780198789185
• ISBN-10: 0198789181
• Artikelnr.: 47865528

Autorenporträt

Aileen Douglas was born in Dublin and did her undergraduate work at Trinity College Dublin. She holds a PhD from Princeton University. For several years she taught at Washington University in St. Louis before returning to Ireland to join the School of English, TCD. Her research interests and publications focus on eighteenth-century print culture, the materiality of writing, women's writing in the long eighteenth century, and Irish writing. She served as Dean of Undergraduate Studies (2008-2011) and is a fellow of Trinity College Dublin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Seeing Script in Print
2: Round Hand Character
3: Round Hand's Dominions
4: Johnson's Character
5: Printing the Author's Hand
6: Edgeworth's Autograph
7: Factory Hands
Postscript