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How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information
Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums
Jillian M. Hess
June 2022
ISBN: 9780192896070
320 pages
Paperback
203x135mm
This volume studies an important manuscript form of nineteenth-century England: the commonplace book and its descendent, the scrapbook. It explores the tradition of managing information in nineteenth-century England and excavates notes and drafts of the most important works in Romantic and Victorian literature.
Description
This volume studies an important manuscript form of nineteenth-century England: the commonplace book and its descendent, the scrapbook. It explores the tradition of managing information in nineteenth-century England and excavates notes and drafts of the most important works in Romantic and Victorian literature.
- Studies the commonplace books, albums, and scrapbooks of Romantic and Victorian writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, George Eliot, and Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Introduces unstudied, and understudied, materials and includes images of manuscripts that have never been published
- Offers a timely investigation into the relationship between technology, knowledge production, information management, and literary forms
- Places canonical authors' notebooks within the commonplace-book tradition
About the Author(s)
Jillian M. Hess, Associate Professor of English, Bronx Community College, City University of New York
Jillian M. Hess is Associate Professor of English at Bronx Community College, CUNY.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
1:Anatomy of the Commonplace
Part I. Organizing Ideas
2:Commonplace Books of the Imagination
3:Laboratory Commonplace Books
4:Commonplace Books of History
Part II. Organizing People
5:Social Commonplace Books
6:Commonplace Books of Mourning
Coda
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