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050 00 $aZ40$b.T46 1996
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100 1 $aThornton, Tamara Plakins,$d1957-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88282661
245 10 $aHandwriting in America :$ba cultural history /$cTamara Plakins Thornton.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axiv, 248 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 195-232) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Lost World of Colonial Handwriting --$g2.$tMen of Character, Scribbling Women: Penmanship in Victorian America --$g3.$tThe Romance and Science of Individuality --$g4.$tYourself, as in a Mirror: Graphology in the Modern Age --$g5.$tAutomatic Writing? Learning to Write in the Twentieth Century --$tEpilogue: The Symbolic Functions of Obsolescence.
520 $aCopybooks and the Palmer method, handwriting analysis and autograph collecting - these words conjure up a lost world, in which people looked to handwriting as both a lesson in conformity and a talisman of individuality. In this engaging history, ranging from colonial times to the present, Tamara Plakins Thornton explores the shifting functions and meanings of handwriting in America.
650 0 $aWriting$zUnited States$xPsychological aspects$xHistory.
852 00 $bglx$hZ40$i.T46 1996