Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2018
Author
Author: Lindsay Dicuirci
Language
English
Number of Pages
279 pp.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
City
Philadelphia, PA
Region
United States
Library Type
Archives and Special Collections
Private/Personal Library
Chronological Period
1800-1849
1850-1899
ISBN
9780812250626
Annotation

Contents: 

  • Lost and found: antiquarianism and the fantasy of preservation
  • Puritan redux: John Winthrop and Cotton Mather in nineteenth-century New England
  • The south in Fragments: printing Anachronisms in the old Dominion
  • The letter and the spirit: materializing Quaker history and myth
  • Romance and repulsion: the imperial archive and Washington Irving's Columbus
  • Epilogue. (Re)Born digital
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