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Marginal Notes: Social Reading and the Literal Margins offers an
account of literary marginalia based on original research from a
range of unique archival sources, from mid-16th-century France to
early 20th-century Tasmania. Chapters examine marginal commentary
from 17th-century China, 18th-century Britain, and 19th-century
America, investigating the reputations, as reflected by attentive
readers, of He Zhou, Pierre Bayle, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Warton,
and Sir Walter Scott. The marginal writers include Jacques Gohory,
Mary Astell, Hester Thrale, Herman Melville, the young daughters of
the Broome family in Gloucestershire, and the patrons of the
library of the Huon Mechanics' Institute, Tasmania. Though
marginalia is often proscribed and frequently hidden or overlooked,
the collection reveals the enduring power of marginalia, concluding
with studies of the ethics of annotation and the resurrected life
of marginalia in digital environments.
Marginal Notes: Social Reading and the Literal Margins offers an
account of literary marginalia based on original research from a
range of unique archival sources, from mid-16th-century France to
early 20th-century Tasmania. Chapters examine marginal commentary
from 17th-century China, 18th-century Britain, and 19th-century
America, investigating the reputations, as reflected by attentive
readers, of He Zhou, Pierre Bayle, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Warton,
and Sir Walter Scott. The marginal writers include Jacques Gohory,
Mary Astell, Hester Thrale, Herman Melville, the young daughters of
the Broome family in Gloucestershire, and the patrons of the
library of the Huon Mechanics' Institute, Tasmania. Though
marginalia is often proscribed and frequently hidden or overlooked,
the collection reveals the enduring power of marginalia, concluding
with studies of the ethics of annotation and the resurrected life
of marginalia in digital environments.
Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James
Boswell is the first sustained examination of James Boswell’s
ephemeral writing, his contributions to periodicals, his pamphlets,
and his broadsides. The essays collected here enhance our
comprehension of his interests, capabilities, and proclivities as
an author and refine our understanding of how the print environment
in which he worked influenced what he wrote and how he wrote it.
This book will also be of interest to historians of journalism and
the publishing industry of eighteenth-century Britain.
The move to a new publisher has given The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual the opportunity to recommit to what it does best:
present to a wide readership cant-free scholarly articles and
essays and searching book reviews, all featuring a wide variety of
approaches, written by both seasoned scholars and relative
newcomers. Volume 24 features commentary on a range of Johnsonian
topics: his reaction to Milton, his relation to the Allen family,
his notes in his edition of Shakespeare, his use of Oliver
Goldsmith in his Dictionary, and his always fascinating Nachleben.
The volume also includes articles on topics of strong interest to
Johnson: penal reform, Charlotte Lennox's professional literary
career, and the "conjectural history" of Homer in the eighteenth
century. For more than two decades, The Age of Johnson has
presented a vast corpus of Johnsonian studies "in the broadest
sense," as founding editor Paul J. Korshin put it in the preface to
Volume 1, and it has retained the interest of a wide readership. In
thousands of pages of articles, review essays, and reviews, The Age
of Johnson has made a permanent contribution to our understanding
of the eighteenth century, and particularly of Samuel Johnson, his
circle, and his interests, and has also served as an outlet for
writers who are not academics but have something important to say
about the eighteenth century. Â ISSN 0884-5816.
James Boswell (1740-1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel
Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist, and an insightful
chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating
collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a generous and varied
selection of Boswell's journalistic writings, most of which have
not been published since the eighteenth century. It offers a new
angle on the history of journalism, an idiosyncratic view of
literature, politics, and public life in late eighteenth-century
Britain, and an original perspective on a complex and engaging
literary personality.
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