Professor Matthew Daniel Eddy m.d.eddy@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Concentrating on the rich tradition of graphic culture that permeated Scotland’s universities during the long eighteenth century, this essay argues that student lecture notebooks were a sophisticated form of scribal media. I reveal that they were inscribed, assembled, bound, bought, sold, disassembled, edited, annotated, pirated, plagiarized, and circulated in a manner that transformed them into tools through which students learned to interactively manage knowledge on paper. In following this path, I transform student notetaking into a dynamic activity that played a central role in shaping the knowledge economy so characteristically associated with the Scottish Enlightenment.
Eddy, M. (2016). The Interactive Notebook: How Students Learned to Keep Notes during the Scottish Enlightenment. Book History, 19(1), 86-131. https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2016.0002
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Oct 13, 2015 |
Online Publication Date | Jan 9, 2017 |
Publication Date | Aug 1, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Oct 13, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 29, 2016 |
Journal | Book History |
Print ISSN | 1098-7371 |
Electronic ISSN | 1529-1499 |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 19 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 86-131 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2016.0002 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1420806 |
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Copyright © 2016 The Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in Book History, Volume 19, Issue 1, 2016, pages 86-131.
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