An edition of Handwriting in America: A Cultural History (1996)

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A Cultural History

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A Cultural History

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Yale University Press
Pages
262

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1996, Yale University Press
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Table of Contents

Prologue.
Page iv
Chapter One. The Lost World of Colonial Handwriting
Page 2
Chapter Two. Men of Character, Scribbling Women: Penmanship in Victorian America
Page 42
Chapter Three. The Romance of Science and Individuality
Page 72
Chapter Four. Yourself, as in a Mirror: Graphology in the Modern Age
Page 108
Chapter Five. Automatic Writing? Learning to Write in the Twentieth Century
Page 142
Epilogue. The Symbolic Functions of Obsolescence
Page 176
Notes.
Page 195
Acknowledgements.
Page 233
Illustration Credits.
Page 235
Index.
Page 239

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New Haven, USA, London, UK
Copyright Date
1996

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Paperback
Pagination
xiv, 248p
Number of pages
262

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OL26304211M
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OL17702377W

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