WEBINAR BOOK LAUNCH

Pen, print and communication in the eighteenth century (Liverpool University Press, 2020) Edited by Caroline Archer-Parré and Malcolm Dick

19 November 2020 | 1800-1930

This is a free event, hosted by Wolverhampton University.

Booking is essential places can be reserved here.

The eighteenth century, perhaps more than any other, was a pivotal time in the development of the mechanics and methods of communication. Commercial, political, legal, social and religious interactions were all facilitated by a variety of material processes such as handwriting, painting, drawing, printing and engraving which coexisted alongside more ephemeral and immaterial means of communication including voice, gesture, costume and performance.

To mark the publication of Pen, print and communication in the eighteenth century ten of the volumes authors plus the editors will be presenting their contributions to the volume. Talks include:

Malcolm Dick: Introduction

Persida Lazarević Di Giacomo: Writing and the preservation of cultural identity: the penmanship manuals of Zaharija Orfelin

Timothy Underhill: ‘The most beautiful hand’” John Byrom and the aesthetics of shorthand

Ruth Larsen: An archaeology of letter writing: the correspondence of aristocratic women in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England

Caroline Archer-Parré: Private pleasures and portable presses: do-it-yourself printers in the eighteenth-century

Joanna Jarvis: Performance and print culture: two eighteenth-century actresses and their image control

Callie Wilkinson: Script, print and the public-private divide; Sir David Ochterlony’s dying words

Elaine Mitchell: Marigolds not manufacturing: plants, print and commerce in eighteenth-century Birmingham

Jenni Dixon: Tourist experience and the manufacturing town: James Bisset’s Magnificent Directory of Birmingham

Emil Rybczak: Perceptions of England: English Theatrical Publications in Germany and the Netherlands

Jon Melton: The Serif-Less Letters of John Soane 

ORGANISED by the Centre for Printing History & Culture, in conjunction with Wolverhampton University.