{"product_id":"handwriting-in-early-america-a-media-history-9781625347206","title":"Handwriting in Early America: A Media History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs digital communication has become dominant, commentators have declared that handwriting is a thing of the past, a relic of an earlier age. This volume of original essays makes it clear that anxiety around handwriting has existed for centuries and explores writing practices from a variety of interdisciplinary fields, including manuscript studies, Native American studies, media history, African American studies, book history, bibliography, textual studies, and archive theory. \u003cp\u003e By examining how a culturally diverse set of people grappled with handwriting in their own time and weathered shifting relationships to it, \u003ci\u003eHandwriting in Early America\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers perspectives that are multiethnic and multiracial, transatlantic and hemispheric, colonial and Indigenous, multilingual and illiterate.  Essays describe a future of handwriting as envisioned by practitioners, teachers, and even government officials of this time, revealing the tension between the anxiety of loss and the need to allow for variations going forward. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contributors include James Berkey, Blake Bronson-Bartlett, John J. Garcia, DesirÉe Henderson, Frank Kelderman, Michelle Levy, Lisa Maruca, Christen Mucher, Alan Niles, Seth Perlow, Carla L. Peterson, Sarah Robbins, Patricia Jane Roylance, and Danielle Skeehan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e “This is an exciting collection. To see handwriting as a kind of media—and to understand that media form as intersectional—is a major and most welcome shift in how scholars understand the material texts of early America and is crucially important for the field moving forward.”—Megan Walsh, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Portrait and the Book: Illustration and Literary Culture in Early America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “This new collection is a key intervention in literary studies. Its essays vary from the most canonical writers (Bradstreet, Poe, Emerson) to more obscure figures whose texts inform the ways scholars understand writing, textuality, and intermediality.”—Hilary E. Wyss, author of \u003ci\u003eEnglish Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50099301417303,"sku":"9781625347206","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781625347206.jpg?v=1740995865","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/handwriting-in-early-america-a-media-history-9781625347206","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}