Overview

Marginalia in early modern and medieval texts – printed, handwrit- ten, drawn, scratched, colored, and pasted in – offer a glimpse of how people, as individuals and in groups, interacted with books and manu- scripts over often lengthy periods of time. The chapters in this volume build on earlier scholarship that established marginalia as an intellec- tual method (Grafton and Jardine), as records of reading motivated by cultural, social, theological, and personal inclinations (Brayman [Hackel] and Orgel), and as practices inspired by material affordances particular to the book and the pen (Fleming and Sherman). They further the study of the practices of marginalia as a mode – a set of ways in which material opportunities and practices overlap with intellectual, social, and personal motivations to make meaning in the world. They introduce us to a set of idiosyncratic examples such as the trace marks of objects left in books, deliberately or by accident; cut-and-pasted additions to printed volumes; a marriage depicted through shared book ownership. They reveal to us in case studies the unique value of mar- ginalia as evidence of phenomena as important and diverse as religious change, authorial self-invention, and the history of the literary canon. The chapters of this book go beyond the case study, however, and raise broad historical, cultural, and theoretical questions about the strange, marvelous, metamorphic thing we call the book, and the equally mul- tiplicitous, eccentric, and inscrutable beings who accompany them through history: readers and writers.

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Author:   Katherine Acheson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.585kg
ISBN:  

9780415418850

ISBN 10:   0415418852
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   20 December 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"1. Introduction 2. ""Cast me not away from thy face"": Marginal Reflections on the English Reformation 3. Articles of Assent: Clergymen's subscribed copies of the Thirty--‐Nine Articles of the Church of England 4. Plus ça change: Renaissance Images in Medieval Books 5. Managing Animals: Sixteenth--‐Century Ecologies of Annotation 6. Studied for Redaction: Reading and Writing in the Works of John Higgins 7. Marginalia as Making: Robert Nicolson's Books 8. Marking Objects in Early Modern Books 9. Vide Supplementum: The Free Library of Philadelphia’s First Folio in Seventeenth--‐Century England 10. Anne Clifford’s Copy of John Selden’s Titles of Honor 11. Marital Marginalia: The Library of Thomas and Isabella Hervey 12. Reading Mathematics in the Seventeenth Century: Evidence from Robert Hooke’s Notes and Marginalia 13. Early Modern Marginalia and #earlymoderntwitter 14. Afterword"

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'A wide-ranging and scholarly collection of essays, addressing early-modern marginalia from many different angles - this is the best expression of where scholarship currently is in this growth area of research.' William Poole, New College, Oxford

Author Information

Katherine Acheson is a Professor of English Language and Literature and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo

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