Bibliograph

Handwriting in America, a cultural history, Tamara Plakins Thornton

Type

Label

Handwriting in America, a cultural history, Tamara Plakins Thornton

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-232) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Handwriting in America

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

34285208

Responsibility statement

Tamara Plakins Thornton

Sub title

a cultural history

Summary

Copybooks 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

Table Of Contents

The lost world of colonial handwriting -- Men of character, scribbling women: penmanship in Victorian America -- The romance and science of individuality -- Yourself, as in a mirror: graphology in the modern age -- Automatic writing? Learning to write in the twentieth century -- The symbolic functions of obsolescence

Classification