Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain

Michelle Levy is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. She has published extensively on women writers, print and manuscript culture, book history and digital humanities. She also directs the Women’s Print History Project, 1750-1836, a comprehensive bibliographical database of women’s books.

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Intentionality and the Romantic Literary ManuscriptChapter 2: Literary Reviews and the Reception of Manuscript CultureChapter 3: Anna Barbauld’s Poetic Career in Script and PrintChapter 4: Lord Byron, Manuscript Poet Chapter 5: Jane Austen’s Fiction in Manuscript Chapter 6: Script’s AfterlivesAfterword: Blake’s Digitized Printed ScriptWorks Cited

This book is a major intervention in the revival of manuscript studies. Rather than treating manuscripts as a form of transmission that was abruptly superseded by the explosion in print, it reveals a culture of composition and circulation that was intrinsic to the media ecology well into the Romantic period.