Why Modern Manuscripts Matter

by Kathryn Sutherland

Book Overview

This is a study of the politics, the commerce, and the aesthetics of heritage culture in the shape of authors' manuscripts. Draft or working manuscripts survive in quantity from the eighteenth century when, with the rise of print, readers learnt to value 'the hand' as an index of individuality and the blotted page, criss-crossed by deletion and revision, as a sign of genius. Since then, collectors have fought over manuscripts, libraries have curated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192856510
• ISBN13: 9780192856517
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"