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DESCRIPTION: \n \n \n \nThe Interacting with Print Research Group presents:
 \n“British Romanticism and the Survival of Manuscript\nCulture :\nA semina
 r with Prof. Michelle Levy (Simon\nFraser)”\nFriday\, April 3\, 2009\n2:00
 -4:00 pm\nColgate Seminar Room\, Rare Books and Special Collections\,\nMcL
 ennan Library\n��ñ��\nPreparatory Readings Available Online at
  http://interactingwithprint.mcgill.ca\nKindly RSVP to Lauren Welsh at int
 eracting.arts [at] mcgill.ca\nThe aim of this seminar is to dispel the ass
 umption that the\nlate-eighteenth century print avalanche destroyed and su
 pplanted\nearlier forms of literary dissemination\, specifically that of\n
 manuscript culture. By rejecting what Paul Duguid has described as\nthe 'r
 hetoric of supercession\,' whereby 'each new technological\ntype vanquishe
 s or subsumes its predecessors\,' the research\npresented will demonstrate
  the survival of traditional manuscript\npractices beyond the early eighte
 enth century\, in which current\nscholarship would have them end. Manuscri
 pt culture\, it will be\nargued\, was not only increasingly absorbed into 
 the late\neighteenth-century print marketplace but also enjoyed a revival 
 in\nits own right. \n\nThis seminar will introduce my new research project
 \, which offers a\nlarge-scale reassessment of the relation between scriba
 l and print\nculture\, one begun by scholars of earlier eras of manuscript
 \nculture\, including Harold Love and Margaret Ezell. Drawing upon\nwork b
 y media scholars such as Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin\, we\nwill examine 
 how the late eighteenth-century print boom remediated\nscript\, and\, at t
 he same time\, gave new life to scribal practices\nthat could stand apart 
 from the publicity of print. Attention will\nalso be paid to the advantage
 s and drawbacks of using digital\ntechnology to remediate historical manus
 cripts. \n\nIn this seminar\, we will address the practical and theoretica
 l\nquestions that attend our attempts to reimagine the Romantic period\nas
  one in which scribal\, oral and print cultures interpenetrated.\nThe read
 ings focus on the negotiations between script and print as\nmanifested in 
 the selected writings and practices of two of the\nperiod's canonical auth
 ors: Jane Austen and S. T. Coleridge.\nThrough discussion of their work as
  well as that of a diverse set\nof other well-known figures including Anna
  Barbauld\, Lord Byron\,\nand Dorothy Wordsworth\, this seminar will exami
 ne how the endurance\nof manuscript culture shaped emergent understandings
  of print\,\nauthorship and literature. At the same time\, we will conside
 r how\nassumptions about the hegemony of print pose challenges to this\nre
 evaluation of manuscript culture.\n
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LOCATION:McLennan Library Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0C9\, 3459 ru
 e McTavish
SUMMARY:British Romanticism and the Survival of Manuscript Culture
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