Marginalia: Readers Writing in BooksYale University Press, 01/01/2001 - 324 páginas From Pierre de Fermat to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Graham Greene, readers have related to books through the notes they write in the margins. In this pioneering book--the first to examine the phenomenon of marginalia--H.J. Jackson surveys an extraordinary range of annotated books to explore the history of marginalia, the forms they take, the psychology that underlies them, and the reactions they provoke. Based on a study of thousands of books annotated by readers both famous and obscure over the last three centuries, this book reveals the intensity of emotion that characterizes the process of reading. For hundreds of years, readers have talked to other people in the margins of their books--not only to authors, but also to friends, lovers, and future generations. With an infectious enthusiasm for her subject, Jackson reflects on the cultural and historical value of writing in the margins, examines works that have invited passionate annotation, and presents examples of some of the most provocative marginalia. Imaginative, amusing, and poignant, this book will be treasured by--and maybe even annotated by--anyone who cares about reading. |
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... kind of record is very likely to increase in value , if not in commer- cial terms then at least in terms of potential use by the sociologist and cultural historian . Something could be made of this modest volume , as I hope to ...
... containing notes but not so described , still Books with Manuscript gave me easy ac- cess to a huge miscellaneous assortment of just the kind of annotations I had been seeking . With this precedent , I turned introduction 9.
... kind , refinements to the text , and of limited interest , as a rule , to anyone but the producer . This is true even of such famous cases as Sir James Frazer's copiously annotated copies of the several parts of The Golden Bough , now ...
... kind I am concerned with are rare before 1700 and increasingly com- mon ( in relation to other forms of annotation ) thereafter . During the pe- riod from about 1750 to 1820 , this kind of writing developed rapidly and became highly ...
... kind of consensus . I shall address this question more at length in the Afterword . For the purposes of this study , I have adopted a few routine procedures and technical conventions . Since the materials come mostly from unpublished ...
Índice
Physical Features | 18 |
History | 44 |
Motives for Marginalia | 81 |
Object Lessons | 101 |
Two Profiles | 149 |
Books for Fanatics | 179 |
Poetics | 204 |
Book Use or Book Abuse | 234 |
Afterword | 259 |
Notes | 267 |
287 | |
301 | |
Acknowledgments | 313 |
Index | 315 |
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