Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. 1 Introduction 3
6. Part One Writing Identity
7. 2 The symbolic life of the mole skine notebook 25
8. 3 Black ink, white bodies 49
9. 4 Indexical heirlooms in immigrant literacy history narratives 69
10. 5 Material motherhood 89
11. Part Two Writing Work
12. 6 New writing in new spaces 119
13. 7 “ Every convenience for a man of letters ” 140
14. 8 Assembling the file , or, how conservation works 170
15. Part Three Writing Genre
16. 9 The victorian visitors ’ book as genre and artifact 194
17. 10 Gendered letterwriting in renaissance england 211
18. Afterword 231
19. Index 239
20. Contributors 245