Epub How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums (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 &quotFly-Catchers&quot, while George Eliot referred to one of her commonplace books as a &quotQuarry,&quot and Michael Faraday kept quotations in his &quotPhilosophical Miscellany.&quot Nevertheless, the nineteenth-century commonplace book, along with associated traditions like the scrapbook and album, remain under-studied. This book tells the story of howtechnological 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 readersto 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

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