Printing Emma Corbett : Revolutionary Violence and the Prosthetics of Typography
This essay examines Samuel Jackson Pratt’s, Emma Corbett: Or, the Miseries of Civil War (1780), a popular novel about the American Revolution that mounted an argument against the violence of the war. Pratt’s critique of the transatlantic conflict between the colonies and the mother country arises fr...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Eighteenth Century. - University of Pennsylvania Press. - 59(2018), 4, Seite 449-469 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2018
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Eighteenth Century |
| Schlagworte: | Samuel Jackson Pratt Emma Corbett: Or the Miseries of Civil War (1780) American Revolution The history of typography Transatlantic printing Representations of violence Treatment of Veterans |
| Zusammenfassung: | This essay examines Samuel Jackson Pratt’s, Emma Corbett: Or, the Miseries of Civil War (1780), a popular novel about the American Revolution that mounted an argument against the violence of the war. Pratt’s critique of the transatlantic conflict between the colonies and the mother country arises from his depiction of suffering veterans with injuries and missing limbs. In an interpolated tale that he titles "A Military Fragment," he uses what I call a "typographical prosthetics" to represent their absent body parts. Through a creative typography that includes extended dashes and multiple asterisks, he creates an architecture of the page that visually describes the placement and displacement of limbs. He thus criticizes and remediates discourses of national conflict by making the disabled bodies of injured soldiers discernible on the page. |
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| ISSN: | 19350201 |