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How Romantics and Victorians organized information : commonplace books, scrapbooks, and albums /

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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 "Philosop...

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Main Author: Hess, Jillian M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford textual perspectives.
Subjects:
Commonplace books > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Information organization > Great Britain > 19th century.
English literature > 19th century > History.
Scrapbooks > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Organisation de l'information > Grande-Bretagne > 19e siècle.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire.
Albums de coupures > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle.
19th Century.
Modern.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
English literature
Commonplace books
Information organization
Intellectual life
Scrapbooks
Great Britain
1800-1899
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction: The Commonplace Method
  • 1. Anatomy of the Commonplace
  • Locke's Legacy
  • Books of Scraps
  • Personal Organizational Systems
  • PART I. ORGANIZING IDEAS
  • 2. Commonplace Books of the Imagination
  • The Notebooks: An Overview
  • Liber Aureus: Coleridge, the Student
  • The Diary and the Romantic Paradox
  • The Fell-Walking Pocket-Books: Coleridge, the Poet of Nature
  • Referentiary: Coleridge the Philosopher
  • The Fly-Catchers: Coleridge, the Christian
  • 3. Laboratory Commonplace Books
  • "Nothing Exists but Thoughts": Davy's Laboratory Notes
  • The Book Seller's Apprentice: Faraday's Philosophical Miscellany
  • Chemical Notes
  • Faraday's Cut-up Index
  • 4. Commonplace Books of History
  • Collecting Ballads: Remediating Orality
  • Scott's "Rebellious Papers"
  • Eliot's Quarry
  • Scrapbooks, Scrapboxes, and Historical Empiricism
  • PART II. ORGANIZING PEOPLE
  • 5. Social Commonplace Books
  • Epistemology of the Lady's Album
  • Autographs
  • Keats's Hand
  • Milton's Hair
  • The Sisterhood of Slade
  • 6. Commonplace Books of Mourning
  • Audrey Tennyson's "Talks and Walks" and "Illness, etc."
  • "A Hand that Can be Clasp'd no More"
  • Empty Pages
  • "Common is the Commonplace"
  • "The footsteps of his life in mine": Queen Victoria's Album Consolativum
  • "The living soul was flash'd on mine"
  • Coda
  • Manuscript Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index.