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I would recommend this to anyone interested in cultural or social history. 4 people found this helpful. An interesting book, but it should have been titled "The Teaching of Handwriting in America". Also, it missed a kind of writing which I can't name, but know when I see it - for example, something like "California" on California auto license tags. It was taught in America, and it was the model in England for many years - a Life magazine article around 1950 showed such examples from the winners in an English schoolboy competition.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-232) and index. 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.

Handwriting in America book. In this engaging history, ranging from colonial times to the present, Tamara Plakins Thornton explores the shifting functions and meanings of handwriting i 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

In this engaging history, ranging from colonial times to the present, Tamara Plakins Thornton explores the shifting functions and meanings of handwriting in America. Script emerged in the eighteenth century as a medium intimately associated with the self, says Thornton, in contrast to the impersonality of print. But thereafter, just what kind of self would be defined or revealed in script was debated in the context of changing economic and social realities, definitions of manhood and womanhood, and concepts of mind and body.

A copybook, or copy book is a book used in education that contains examples of handwriting and blank space for learners to imitate. Tamara Plakins Thornton, "Handwriting in America: A cultural history. Typical uses include teaching penmanship and arithmetic to students. A page of a copy book typically starts with a copybook heading: a printed example of what should be copied, such as a single letter or a short proverb. The rest of the page is empty, except for horizontal rulings. The student is expected to copy the example down the page. Otis, Broaders and Company.

Handwriting in America: A Cultural History. Handwriting improvement Joy of flex, I Joy of flex, II Calligraphy tips Handwriting history. In the foreword, author Tamara Plakins Thornton shows us the seeds of the intellectual journey that resulted in this book: "Foremost among (my attitudes) toward handwriting was my secret conviction that good penmanship does not matter, that if anything it denotes a person who is fearful or incapable of being in any way unusual. By Tamara Plakins Thornton. Yale University Press, 1996. John Boli, "Handwriting in America: A Cultural History by Tamara Plakins Thornton," American Journal of Sociology 103, no. 3 (November 1997): 794-796.

In this engaging history, ranging from colonial times to the present, Tamara Plakins Thornton explores the shifting functions and meanings of handwriting in America.

History of Education Quarterly. Recommend this journal.

Thornton, Tamara Plakins. This book, a history of handwriting in America ranging from colonial times to the present, explores the shifting functions and meanings of handwriting in this country. Script emerged in the 18th century as a medium intimately associated with the self, in contrast to the impersonality of print. Just what kind of self would be defined or revealed in script was debated in the context of changing economic and social realities, definitions of manhood and womanhood, and concepts of mind and body.