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Using methods from book history and print culture studies, Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry explores the functions that annotation performed on and through the printed page. Studying the relation of notes to poetry and the evolving layout of the book, this collection extends to recent inquiries into the rise of literature as a discipline.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Michael Edson
Part I: Georgic Annotation
1 Annotating Georgic Poetry
Karina Williamson and Michael Edson
2 William Falconer's The Shipwreck and the Birth of the Dictionary of the Marine
William Jones
Part II: Nationalism, Antiquarianism, and Annotation
3 The Afterlife of Annotation: How Robert of Gloucester Became the Founding Father of English Poetry
Jeff Strabone
4 Topographical Annotation in Thomas Percy's The Hermit of Warkworth and John Pinkerton's The Bruce
Thomas Van der Goten
5 Marginal Imprints: Robert Southey's Notes to Madoc
Alex Watson
Part III: Varieties of Annotation
6 A Translator's Annotation: Alexander Pope's Observations on His Iliad
David Hopkins
7 Allusion and Quotation in Chaucerian Annotation, 1687-1798
Tom Mason
8 Looking Homeward: Thomas Warton's Annotation of Milton and the Poetic Tradition
Adam Rounce
Part IV: Annotating the Canon
9 Zachary Grey's Annotations on Samuel Butler's Hudibras
Mark A. Pedreira
10 William Hymers and the Editing of William Collins's Poems, 1765-1797
Sandro Jung
11 Paratexting Beauty into Duty: Aesthetics and Morality in Late Eighteenth-Century Literary Collections
Barbara M. Benedict
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
Edited by Michael Edson - Contributions by Barbara M. Benedict; Thomas Van der Goten; David Hopkins; William Jones; Sandro Jung; Tom Mason; Mark A. Pedreira; Adam Rounce; Jeff Strabone; Alex Watson and Karina Williamson
