The book analyses attempts by Dickens and other nineteenth-century
writers to challenge established ways of using the distinction
between upper and lower case letters, in the interests of a wider
radicalism. It discusses Dickens's satire - on 'Shares' in Our
Mutual Friend, on Paul Dombey's position as the 'Son' of Dombey and
Son - alongside the proto-modernist typography of suffragist poet
Augusta Webster and the work of Marx's translators transforming
German conventions of capitalisation into English under the
influence of Dickens and Carlyle. Placing these innovations within
the history of the dual alphabet from its invention by Carolingian
scribes to its rejection by modernist poets and the Bauhaus
printers, the book tracks the dual alphabet through Dickens's
manuscripts, corrected proofs, and the 'prompt copies' for his
public Readings, highlighting distinct ways in which writing,
printing and speech produce meaning. -- .
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