How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums

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Jillian M. Hess (Associate Professor of English, Bronx Community College, City University of New York)

How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information

Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums

Jillian M. Hess (Associate Professor of English, Bronx Community College, City University of New York)

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Oxford University Press
22 September 2022

Series: Oxford Textual Perspectives

"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."

By: Jillian M. Hess (Associate Professor of English Bronx Community College City University of New York)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 204mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 416g
ISBN: 9780192896070
ISBN 10: 0192896075
Series: Oxford Textual Perspectives
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 22 September 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Jillian M. Hess is Associate Professor of English at Bronx Community College, CUNY.

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Readers interested in book history, media archeology, the material cultures of reading, and the evolution of the commonplace tradition over the course of the nineteenth century will return to this book over and over again. * Ann Wierda Rowland, The Coleridge Bulletin: The Journal of the Friends of Coleridge. *

Winner of Honourable mention, British Association of Romanticism first book prize.

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Jillian M. Hess (Associate Professor of English, Bronx Community College, City University of New York)

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