{"title":"Bleak House’s Characters in Hand and Type","authors":"Monica Cohen","doi":"10.1353/sel.2019.0036","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article begins when, in the first installment of Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, Lady Dedlock faints at the sight of some handwriting on a legal document: the personal character of her former lover defiantly haunts the law hand he learned as a legal copyist. This tension between personal character and professional handwriting encapsulates midcentury copyright debates in which the moral rights of a personalized model of authorship competed with the trade interests of British publishing. The novel’s representation of this curious handwriting, however, materializes quite literally in the second installment: in the British publication in parts, Bradbury and Evans reproduce this intriguing hand in a letter whose exotic typeface reflects the creative machinery of a booming print industry.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2019-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2019.0036","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article begins when, in the first installment of Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, Lady Dedlock faints at the sight of some handwriting on a legal document: the personal character of her former lover defiantly haunts the law hand he learned as a legal copyist. This tension between personal character and professional handwriting encapsulates midcentury copyright debates in which the moral rights of a personalized model of authorship competed with the trade interests of British publishing. The novel’s representation of this curious handwriting, however, materializes quite literally in the second installment: in the British publication in parts, Bradbury and Evans reproduce this intriguing hand in a letter whose exotic typeface reflects the creative machinery of a booming print industry.
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SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.
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