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Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Hardcover)
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Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Text & Print Culture
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Recent years have witnessed a growing fascination with the printed
annotations accompanying eighteenth-century texts. Previous studies
of annotation have revealed the margins as dynamic textual spaces
both shaping and shaped by diverse aesthetic, historical, and
political sensibilities. Yet previous studies have also been
restricted to notes by or for canonical figures; they have
neglected annotation's relation to developments in reading
audiences and the book trade; and they have overlooked the
interaction, even tension, between prose notes and poetry, a
tension reflecting eighteenth-century views of poetry as
aesthetically superior to prose. Annotation in Eighteenth-Century
Poetry addresses these oversights through a substantial
introduction and eleven essays analyzing the printed endnotes and
footnotes accompanying poems written or annotated between 1700 and
1830. Drawing on methods and critical developments in book history
and print culture studies, this collection explores the functions
that annotation performed on and through the printed page. By
analyzing the annotation specific to poetry, these essays clarify
the functions of notes among the other paratexts, including
illustrations, by which scholars have mapped poetry's relation to
the expanding book trade and the class-specific production of
different formats. Because the reading and writing of poetry
boasted social and pedagogical functions that predate the rise of
the note as a print technology, studying the relation of notes to
poetry also reveals how the evolving layout of the
eighteenth-century book wrought significant changes not only on
reading practices and reception, but on the techniques that
booksellers used to make new poems, steady-sellers, and antiquarian
discoveries legible to new readers. Above all, analyzing notes in
poetry volumes contributes to larger inquiries into canon formation
and the rise of literary studies as a discipline in the eighteenth
century.
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