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Handwriting in Early America

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African American literacy
Archive theory
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Colonial education and handwriting
Colonial handwriting
Colonial handwriting traditions
Cultural history of handwriting
Cultural perspectives on handwriting
Cultural significance of handwriting
Drawing
Early America
Early American education and handwriting
Early American literacy
Early American writing
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Government influence on handwriting
Handwriting
Handwriting and identity in early America
Handwriting and race
Handwriting and the digital divide
Handwriting as a form of communication
Handwriting in African American studies
Handwriting in archival research
Handwriting in colonial America
Handwriting in Native American studies
Handwriting in the 18th century
Handwriting in the digital age
Historical manuscript analysis
History of book production
History of handwriting
Indigenous writing
Interdisciplinary research on handwriting
Interdisciplinary studies of handwriting
literacy education
Manuscript studies
Manuscript studies in early America
Media history
Media studies
Native American handwriting history
Native American writing practices
Preservation of handwriting
Print Culture
Script
Studies on handwriting and race
Studying colonial scripts
Textual studies of handwriting
Transatlantic handwriting traditions

Product details

  • ISBN 9781625347206
  • Weight: 272g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Aug 2023
  • Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description
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.
About
Mark Alan Mattes is assistant professor of English at the University of Louisville.