Alexix, Cydney, editorRule, Hannah J., editorUtah State University Press, publisher2022-12-152022-12-152022https://hdl.handle.net/10217/235898This book opens up avenues for understanding writing through scholarship in material culture studies. Contributors each interrogate an object, set of objects, or writing environment to reveal the sociomaterial contexts from which writing emerges. Close study of such artifacts offers up the potential for inquiry into writing artifacts and environments.--Provided by publisher.Introduction: the material culture of writing / Cydney Alexis and Hannah J. Rule -- The symbolic life of the Moleskine notebook: material goods as a tableau for writing identity performance / Cydney Alexis -- Black ink, white bodies: gender, race and writing instruments / Desirée Henderson -- Indexical heirlooms in immigrant literacy history narratives / Jenny Krichevsky -- Material motherhood: the disconnect of science and consumerism from nostalgia in baby books / Emilie Merrigan -- New writing in new spaces: 'social writing' in an interdisciplinary academic makerspace / Debby Andrews -- 'Every convenience for a man of letters': Thomas Jefferson's writing suite / Diane Ehrenpreis -- Assembling the file, or, How conservation works / Anne Mackay -- The Victorian visitor's book as genre and artifact / Kevin James -- Gendered letterwriting in Renaissance England: genre as sociomaterial action / Keri Epps.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.Written communication -- Social aspectsWriting materials and instruments -- Social aspectsAuthorship -- TechniqueWriting -- Social aspectsMaterial culture -- Study and teachingTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University members only.