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The Marks in the Field: Essays on the Uses of Manuscripts (Houghton Library Publications): 9 - Softcover

Dennis, Rodney G.

 
9780914630074: The Marks in the Field: Essays on the Uses of Manuscripts (Houghton Library Publications): 9
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0914630075 ISBN 13: 9780914630074
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2005

Synopsis

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Harvard's Houghton Library in 1992, Curator of Manuscripts Rodney Dennis asked a stellar cast of critics, historians, and curators to write on items selected from the library's rich trove of manuscripts, which ranges from the papyrus fragments and ostraca of Antiquity to the papers of such modern figures as Elizabeth Bishop and Leon Trotsky. The result was The Marks in the Fields, an extraordinary collection of essays by the likes of Helen Vendler, Christopher Ricks, and Lawrence Buell, which, in Dennis's words, combine to highlight "the natural patterns" found in manuscripts of all times and places, patterns that "go on occurring, everywhere and forever astonishing the mind."

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About the Authors

Rodney G. Dennis is the retired Curator of Manuscripts at Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library.

Elizabeth A. Falsey is Reader Services Librarian at Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0914630075
ISBN 13 
9780914630074
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
212