Marginalia
Subtitle: readers writing in books
By: H.J. Jackson.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Books and reading -- History.; Marginalia -- History.
Description: "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 book - the first to examine the phenomenon of marginalia - H.J. Jackson surveys a 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 past 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-311) and index.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: 1; label: Chapter 1
title: Physical Features
pagenum: 18; label: Chapter 2
title: History
pagenum: 44; label: Chapter 3
title: Motives for Marginalia
pagenum: 81; label: Chapter 4
title: Object Lessons
pagenum: 101; label: Chapter 5
title: Two Profiles
pagenum: 149; label: Chapter 6
title: Books for Fanatics
pagenum: 179; label: Chapter 7
title: Poetics
pagenum: 204; label: Chapter 8
title: Book Use or Book Abuse
pagenum: 234; label: Afterword
title: 259; label: Notes
title: 267; label: Bibliography of Annotated Books Cited
title: 287; label: Bibliography of Secondary Works Cited
title: 301; label: Acknowledgments
title: 313; label: Index
title: 315