This is a study of the politics, the commerce, and the aesthetics of heritage culture in the shape of authors' manuscripts.It asks what it might mean to re-read print in the shadow of manuscript. Case studies of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Walter Scott, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen—writers from the first great period of manuscript survival—are interspersed with discussions of William Godwin's record keeping, the Cairo genizah, Katie Paterson's 'Future Library' project, Andy Warhol's and Muriel Spark's self-archiving, Cornelia Parker's reclamation art, and moreKathryn Sutherland(2022),Why Modern Manuscripts Matter.Oxford University Press