Bibliograph

The missing ink, the lost art of handwriting (and why it still matters), Philip Hensher

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The missing ink, the lost art of handwriting (and why it still matters), Philip Hensher

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-271)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The missing ink

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

796276548

Responsibility statement

Philip Hensher

Sub title

the lost art of handwriting (and why it still matters)

Summary

The simple pleasure of picking up a pen and writing is a skill that has existed for thousands of years - but that skill is slowly dying. Where once we would have reached for a pen and paper to commit our innermost thoughts to a diary, to send a letter home or to slip a note to a loved one, instead we now stare at tiny screens, typing with our thumbs. And all that typing looks the same. The Missing Ink is a book about the characters who shaped our handwriting, and how it in turn shaped us. From Victorian idealists, preaching the moral worth of italic copperplate, to great modern educational reformists such as Marion Richardson, throughout history the style in which we write has influence the way we learn, behave and communicate. But this is also a book about the physical act itself: about the pots of ink, treasured pens and chewable Biros that we used to take for granted, and whether the style of our writing really does reveal anything about our true selves. Hugely entertaining, witty and thought-provoking, The Missing Ink is itself a love letter to the warmest of technologies, and the place it still has in our lives

Table Of Contents

1. Witness -- 2. Introduction -- 3. There's Nothing Wrong with my Handwriting, They just Need to Pay Someone who Can Read it -- 4. A History of Handwriting, from String Onwards -- 5. What's my Handwriting Like? -- 6. Witness -- 7. Out of the Billiard Halls, Courtesy of Copperplate -- 8. Vere Foster and A.N. Palmer -- 9. Dickens -- 10. Print and Manuscript and Ball and Stick -- 11.`Une Question de Writing' -- 12. Witness -- 13. Hitler's Handwriting -- 14. Preparing the Boys for Death: The Invention of Italic -- 15. Witness -- 16. Ink -- 17. Witness -- 18. Pens -- 19. Marion Richardson -- 20. Reading Your Mind -- 21. Witness -- 22. Vitativeness -- 23. Not Being Able to Read: Proust -- 24. Gissa Job, Siegmund -- 25. Witness -- 26. Biros and Not-Biros -- 27. Witness -- 28. My Italic Nightmare -- 29. What is To Be Done

Target audience

general

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