Romantic Marginality
Nation and Empire on the Borders of the Page
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2012
208 pages
978-1-84893-193-0 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first critical study of Romantic-era annotation or marginalia - footnotes, endnotes, glossaries - which formed a vital site of literary interaction.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-84893-193-0 (9781848931930)
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Content
Introduction: Reading from the Margins 1 Contesting the Jupien Effect: Annotation in the Eighteenth Century 2 The Author in the Margins: Annotation as Site of Conflict 3 Margins and Marginality: Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (1800) and Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl (1806) 4 The Imperial Collection: Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer: A Metrical Romance (1801) 5 The Margins of the Nation: Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786) and Walter Scott's Waverley (1814) 6 Byron's Errantry: Lord Byron and John Cam Hobhouse's Annotation for Cantos I, II and IV of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1811-16) Conclusion: Romantic Marginality and Beyond
