Colonial Revivals : : The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books / / Lindsay DiCuirci.
In the long nineteenth century, the specter of lost manuscripts loomed in the imagination of antiquarians, historians, and writers. Whether by war, fire, neglect, or the ravages of time itself, the colonial history of the United States was perceived as a vanishing record, its archive a hoard of mate...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Material Texts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 7 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Lost and Found: Antiquarianism and the Fantasy of Preservation
- Chapter 2. Puritan Redux: John Winthrop and Cotton Mather in Nineteenth-Century New England
- Chapter 3. The South in Fragments: Printing Anachronisms in the Old Dominion
- Chapter 4. The Letter and the Spirit: Materializing Quaker History and Myth
- Chapter 5. Romance and Repulsion: The Imperial Archive and Washington Irving’s Columbus
- Epilogue. (Re)Born Digital
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments