Handwriting in Early America: A Media History by Mattes, Mark Alan

Handwriting in Early America: A Media History

As digital communication has become dominant, commentators have declared that handwriting is a thing of the past,...
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Author: Mark Alan Mattes
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Handwriting in Early America: A Media History by Mattes, Mark Alan

Handwriting in Early America: A Media History

$118.15

Handwriting in Early America: A Media History

$118.15
Author: Mark Alan Mattes
Format: Paperback
Language: English

As 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.

By examining how a culturally diverse set of people grappled with handwriting in their own time and weathered shifting relationships to it, Handwriting in Early America 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.

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.



Author: Mark Alan Mattes
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 08/25/2023
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781625347190

About the Author

MARK ALAN MATTES is assistant professor of English at the University of Louisville.


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