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How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information - Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums (Hardcover)
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How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information - Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Textual Perspectives
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Every literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a
commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his
collection "Fly-Catchers", while George Eliot referred to one of
her commonplace books as a "Quarry," and Michael Faraday kept
quotations in his "Philosophical Miscellany." Nevertheless, the
nineteenth-century commonplace book, along with associated
traditions like the scrapbook and album, remain under-studied. This
book tells the story of how technological and social changes
altered methods for gathering, storing, and organizing information
in nineteenth-century Britain. As the commonplace book moved out of
the schoolroom and into the home, it took on elements of the
friendship album. At the same time, the explosion of print allowed
readers to cheaply cut-and-paste extractions rather than copying
out quotations by hand. Built on the evidence of over 300
manuscripts, this volume unearths the composition practices of
well-known writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter
Scott, George Eliot, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, and their less
well-known contemporaries. Divided into two sections, the first
half of the book contends that methods for organizing knowledge
developed in line with the period's dominant epistemic frameworks,
while the second half argues that commonplace books helped
Romantics and Victorians organize people. Chapters focus on
prominent organizational methods in nineteenth-century
commonplacing, often attached to an associated epistemic virtue:
diaristic forms and the imagination (Chapter Two); "real time"
entries signalling objectivity (Chapter Three); antiquarian
remnants, serving as empirical evidence for historical arguments
(Chapter Four); communally produced commonplace books that attest
to socially constructed knowledge (Chapter Five); and blank spaces
in commonplace books of mourning (Chapter Six). Richly illustrated,
this book brings an archive of commonplace books, scrapbooks, and
albums to the reader.
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