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Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690-1840 argues that between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries manual writing was a dynamic technology. It examines script in relation to becoming a writer; in constructions of the author; and in emerging ideas of the human. Revising views of print as displacing script, Work in Hand argues that print reproduced script, print generated script; and print shaped understandings of script. In this, the double nature ofprint, as both moveable type and rolling press, is crucial. During this period, the shapes of letters changed as the multiple hands of the early-modern period gave way to English round hand; the denial of writing to the labouring classes was slowly replaced by acceptance of the desirability of universal writing;understandings of script in relation to copying and discipline came to be accompanied by ideas of the autograph.The work begins by surveying representations of script in letterpress and engraving. It discusses initiation into writing in relation to the copy-books of English writing masters, and in the context of colonial pedagogy in Ireland and India. The middle chapters discuss the physical work of writing, the material dimensions of script, and the autograph, in constructions of the author in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and in relation to Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, WilliamBlake, Isaac D'Israeli, and Maria Edgeworth. The final chapter considers the emerging association of script with ideas of the human in the work of the Methodist preacher Joseph Barker.

Book history --- letterpress printing --- scripts [writing] --- penmanship --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- 091:003 --- 094 <086> --- 655.24 <09> --- 091 "17" --- 091 "18" --- 094 "17" --- 094 "18" --- English language --- Printing --- Germanic languages --- 094 "18" Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- 094 "17" Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- 091 "18" Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- 091 "17" Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- 655.24 <09> Lettertypes. Lettersoorten--geschiedenis van --- 655.24 <09> Type styles. Characters--history of --- Lettertypes. Lettersoorten--geschiedenis van --- Type styles. Characters--history of --- 094 <086> Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Oude lettertypes, 'printing types' --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Oude lettertypes, 'printing types' --- 091:003 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Semiotiek. Schriften. Tekens en symbolen. Codes. Grafische voorstellingen --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Semiotiek. Schriften. Tekens en symbolen. Codes. Grafische voorstellingen --- Writing --- History