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Thornton, Tamara Plakins, 1957-

Title Handwriting in America : a cultural history / Tamara Plakins Thornton.

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New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1996.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction	652.1 THORNTON	Check Shelf
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	652.1 T514H	Check Shelf

Description	xiv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-232) and index.
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.
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.
Subject	Writing -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- History.
	Handwriting -- history.
	Penmanship -- History.
	Calligraphy -- United States -- History.
	Calligraphy. (OCoLC)fst00844368
	Penmanship. (OCoLC)fst01056963
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject	Writing -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst01181657
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	0300064772 (hardcover)
	9780300064773 (hardcover)
	9780300074413 (pbk.)
	0300074417 (pbk.)

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