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		<title>Vanessa Warne. By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen Forget]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This volume explores blindness and culture in the nineteenth century predominantly in English-speaking contexts through the reading and writing habits of blind authors and literary characters. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Paul Fyfe. Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Swara Shukla]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 20:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Digital Victorians explores and complicates a range of questions involved in studies of nineteenth-century literatures, new media, and DH methodologies.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Alexis Easley, ed. British Writers, Popular Literature, and New Media Innovation, 1820-45.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Nesvet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 18:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The twelve essays in this volume explore early nineteenth-century Britain’s new media, modes of production, and types of authors, editors, illustrators, publishers, and readers, revealing that features of media culture we take for granted today had their origins in 1820-40.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Freya Johnston. Jane Austen, Early and Late.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angelina Eimannsberger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 22:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Freya Johnston’s Jane Austen, Early and Late reframes Austen’s work by reading the author’s juvenilia, short texts, and other so-called minor writing in conversation with her six major novels. Instead of establishing a clear hierarchy that progresses from more ephemeral writing to the well-known novels, Johnston treats all of Austen’s writing as connected and essential to understanding this major figure of literary history. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Adam Gordon. Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites: Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of the Critic.</title>
		<link>https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews/2024/05/31/adam-gordon-prophets-publicists-and-parasites-antebellum-print-culture-and-the-rise-of-the-critic/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma Hetrick]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Each chapter of Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites centers on a particular nineteenth-century American critic: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rufus Griswold, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Fuller, and Frederick Douglass. The book’s introduction contextualizes the critics’ historical moment as one in which growing nationalism, advances in printing technologies, and a productive economy enabled the emergence of the literary critic as a fully-fledged profession. These changes also encouraged the proliferation of literary criticism in a variety of print forms. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mark Alan Mattes, ed. Handwriting in Early America: A Media History.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jayne Ptolemy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 2010, changes to American education standards eliminated the mandate to teach handwriting in public schools. As a result many states dropped the practice in classrooms. Yet in recent years trends have begun to reverse, and now more than 20 states once again include formal cursive instruction (Elizabeth Heubeck, “More States Require Schools to Teach Cursive Writing. Why?” EducationWeek, 16 November 2023). On the first day of 2024, California became one of the latest to do so, but newspapers reflect lingering skepticism. In one opinion piece entitled “Spare the state’s schoolchildren cruel and cursed cursive lessons,” a columnist for the Los Angeles Times concluded, “Cursive is for when you have nothing else to do, or want to live out some steampunk fantasy” (Gustavo Arellano, “Spare the state’s schoolchildren cruel and cursed cursive lessons,” Los Angeles Times, 15 January 2024). It was with this context in mind that I read Handwriting in Early America: A Media History, edited by Mark Alan Mattes. Why does handwriting matter, and how can scholars and educators better explain its significance?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Alberto Gabriele. The Emergence of Pre-Cinema: Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination.</title>
		<link>https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews/2023/06/26/alberto-gabriele-the-emergence-of-pre-cinema-print-culture-and-the-optical-toy-of-the-literary-imagination/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Téa Rokolj]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 17:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Emergence of Pre-Cinema is a genealogical study that traces the dispersed history of self-reflexivity and fragmentation in the context of nineteenth century culture and print-based literary forms. The aim is to observe these phenomena in relation to their past and their future, from Baroque precursors through the twentieth-century avant-garde, beyond national borders or a predetermined periodization. The optical toys such as flipbooks or thaumatropes that the author references in the subtitle of his book draw attention to the sense of vision, subjective modes of perception, movement, and temporality. Gabriele is interested in visualizations within literary texts such as montage-like, fragmentary forms of writing by Friedrich Schlegel or cartographic imagination and panoramic descriptions of Italian landscape in painterly writing by Ann Radcliffe, for example. These multisensory and multidirectional “visions mediated by the technology of print culture” are prescient at times or contemporaneous with the technologies of early cinema. Gabriele is intent on acknowledging their long history side by side and in contrast to linear, often technologically determined narratives surrounding the invention of optical devices and the history of cinema.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Project-Based Teaching in Special Collections: Building Digital Cruikshank</title>
		<link>https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews/2023/01/30/project-based-teaching-in-special-collections-building-digital-cruikshank/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay DiCuirci]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 21:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Fall 2022, students in my combined undergraduate and graduate English seminar at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County participated in a semester-long collaboration with our Special Collections Library. Head of Special Collections, Beth Saunders, and Special Collections librarian, Susan Graham, and I secured seed funding from our university to design and run an upper-level course centered on digitizing a library collection and then curating and building a digital resource. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Recchio, Thomas. The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett: In “the World of Actual Literature.” New York: Anthem Press, 2020.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tina Hudak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2022 19:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Upon closing the final pages of The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett In ‘the World of Actual Literature,” I am spellbound. As a reader of Burnett’s children’s works, Recchio brings so many dimensions of her adult writing, thus broadening the scope. Recchio, Professor of English, Emeritus at University of Connecticut, attempts to place the author, best known for her children’s literature such as The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy, solidly in the realm of serious women writers of adult fiction. With his extensive academic knowledge and publications on the Victorian literature on the writings of Elizabeth Gaskell, he builds well-documented arguments worth reading within the five chapters of the book.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gavin Edwards. The Case of the Initial Letter: Charles Dickens and the Politics of the Dual Alphabet.</title>
		<link>https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews/2022/06/21/gavin-edwards-the-case-of-the-initial-letter-charles-dickens-and-the-politics-of-the-dual-alphabet/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amanda Lastoria]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 20:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ a christmas carol? How does the change in capitalization impact our reading of the text? Gavin Edwards’s The Case of the Initial Letter: Charles Dickens and the Politics of the Dual Alphabet is a thorough consideration of the use and abuse of the initial letter. The initial letter is the first letter of a word. It is not necessarily a drop cap or an ornamental letter that starts a chapter with embellishment. The upper-case initial letter is most often quieter than that – a C instead of a c – but, as we learn, it conveys dignity and carries political weight. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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