Marginalia: Readers Writing in BooksYale University Press, 1 jan 2001 - 324 pagina's From Pierre de Fermat to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Graham Greene, readers have related to books through the notes they write in the margins. In this pioneering book--the first to examine the phenomenon of marginalia--H.J. Jackson surveys an extraordinary range of annotated books to explore the history of marginalia, the forms they take, the psychology that underlies them, and the reactions they provoke. Based on a study of thousands of books annotated by readers both famous and obscure over the last three centuries, this book reveals the intensity of emotion that characterizes the process of reading. For hundreds of years, readers have talked to other people in the margins of their books--not only to authors, but also to friends, lovers, and future generations. With an infectious enthusiasm for her subject, Jackson reflects on the cultural and historical value of writing in the margins, examines works that have invited passionate annotation, and presents examples of some of the most provocative marginalia. Imaginative, amusing, and poignant, this book will be treasured by--and maybe even annotated by--anyone who cares about reading. |
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... copy of Galileo's work on sunspots , Istoria e di- mostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari ( Rome , 1613 ) . A publicity flyer de- scribes it as follows : The special interest of this copy lies in the copious annotations in Ital- ian ...
... copy of that edition , rare and valuable though it might be . The book is not an association copy : the notes are not Galileo's , nor does it contain even his autograph . The notes were written , so far as we know , not by some other ...
... copy of Situation Ethics might be described as a middling case . It's not as uninformative as the book that contains nothing but un- derlining , nor as thrilling as a copy that provides privileged information or bold and significant ...
... copy of Situation Ethics illustrates a fact that many serious readers deplore : even when less invasive alternatives are available , people go on guiltily disfiguring books . Those same serious readers might be prepared to make an ...
... copy can be found . A copy of Samuel Johnson's Plan of a Dictionary now at the University of Toronto is a case in point : its eighteenth - century owner , Samuel Maude , used it for his diary ( fig . 1 ) . Writers ' archives come into ...
Inhoudsopgave
Physical Features | 18 |
History | 44 |
Motives for Marginalia | 81 |
Object Lessons | 101 |
Two Profiles | 149 |
Books for Fanatics | 179 |
Poetics | 204 |
Book Use or Book Abuse | 234 |
Afterword | 259 |
Notes | 267 |
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Acknowledgments | 313 |
Index | 315 |
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