Romantic Marginality - Nation and Empire on the Borders of the Page

Informationen zum Autor Watson, Alex Klappentext This is the first critical study of Romantic-era annotation or marginalia - footnotes, endnotes, glossaries - which formed a vital site of literary interaction. Zusammenfassung This is the first critical study of Romantic-era annotation or marginalia – footnotes, endnotes, glossaries – which formed a vital site of literary interaction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: Reading from the Margins; Chapter 1a Contesting the Jupien Effect: Annotation in the Eighteenth Century; Chapter 2 The Author in the Margins: Annotation as Site of Conflict; Chapter 3 Margins and Marginality: Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (1800) and Sydney Owenson's the Wild Irish Girl (1806); Chapter 4 The Imperial Collection: Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer: A Metrical Romance (1801); Chapter 5 The Margins of the Nation: Robert Burns's Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786) and Walter Scott's Waverley (1814); Chapter 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); Chapter 7 Conclusion: Romantic Marginality and beyond;

Product details

• Authors: Alexandra Adornetto, Alex Watson
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9781848931923
• ISBN: 978-1-84893-192-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: The History of the Book; The History of the Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800