Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry (eBook)
278 Seiten
Lehigh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61146-253-1 (ISBN)
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.
Michael Edson is assistant Professor in the English department at the University of Wyoming.
List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMichael Edson Part I: Georgic Annotation1 Annotating Georgic PoetryKarina Williamson and Michael Edson2 William Falconer’s The Shipwreck and the Birth of the Dictionary of the MarineWilliam Jones Part II: Nationalism, Antiquarianism, and Annotation3 The Afterlife of Annotation: How Robert of Gloucester Became the Founding Father of English PoetryJeff Strabone4 Topographical Annotation in Thomas Percy’s The Hermit of Warkworth and John Pinkerton’s The BruceThomas Van der Goten5 Marginal Imprints: Robert Southey’s Notes to MadocAlex Watson Part III: Varieties of Annotation6 A Translator’s Annotation: Alexander Pope’s Observations on His IliadDavid Hopkins7 Allusion and Quotation in Chaucerian Annotation, 1687–1798Tom Mason8 Looking Homeward: Thomas Warton’s Annotation of Milton and the Poetic TraditionAdam Rounce Part IV: Annotating the Canon9 Zachary Grey’s Annotations on Samuel Butler’s HudibrasMark A. Pedreira10 William Hymers and the Editing of William Collins’s Poems, 1765–1797Sandro Jung11 Paratexting Beauty into Duty: Aesthetics and Morality in Late Eighteenth-Century Literary CollectionsBarbara M. BenedictIndexAbout the Contributors
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.10.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | Studies in Text & Print Culture |
Co-Autor | Barbara M. Benedict, Alex Watson, Karina Williamson, Thomas Van der Goten, David Hopkins, William Jones, Sandro Jung, Tom Mason, Mark A. Pedreira, Adam Rounce, Jeff Strabone |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Eighteenth-Century Studies • Literary criticism • Poetry |
ISBN-10 | 1-61146-253-3 / 1611462533 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-61146-253-1 / 9781611462531 |
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