Thora Brylowe is a scholar of British Romanticism and print history. Her monograph examines a group of professional printers, authors, editors, painters and engravers, who worked in and around London during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She is interested in the labor that went into making and mediating Romantic-era literature and visual art. Print circulation led to debates about what representations belonged in the national canon. Brylowe is working on a book project that examines the shift from rag to wood pulp paper and the trade and labor ramifications of that shift. The book will use paper's recyclability as a means to theorize a relationship between media ecology and earth's ecology.
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british romanticism, british 18th century studies, history of the book, print culture studies, visual studies, word image theory, institutional histories, labor history, history of paper, working class studies
