Early modern English marginalia / edited by Katherine Acheson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Acheson, Katherine O., 1963- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Material readings in early modern culture.

Material readings in early modern culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

England.

Marginalia--England--History--16th century.

Marginalia.

Marginalia--England--History--17th century.

Books and reading--England--History--16th century.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--England--History--17th century.

Early printed books--England--16th century.

Early printed books.

Early printed books--England--17th century.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--Criticism, Textual.

English literature.

Manuscripts, English--Editing.

Manuscripts, English.

English literature--Early modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

Marginalia in early modern and medieval texts - printed, handwrit- ten, drawn, scratched, colored, and pasted in - offer a glimpse of how people, as individuals and in groups, interacted with books and manu- scripts over often lengthy periods of time. The chapters in this volume build on earlier scholarship that established marginalia as an intellec- tual method (Grafton and Jardine), as records of reading motivated by cultural, social, theological, and personal inclinations (Brayman [Hackel] and Orgel), and as practices inspired by material affordances particular to the book and the pen (Fleming and Sherman). They further the study of the practices of marginalia as a mode - a set of ways in which material opportunities and practices overlap with intellectual, social, and personal motivations to make meaning in the world. They introduce us to a set of idiosyncratic examples such as the trace marks of objects left in books, deliberately or by accident; cut-and-pasted additions to printed volumes; a marriage depicted through shared book ownership. They reveal to us in case studies the unique value of mar- ginalia as evidence of phenomena as important and diverse as religious change, authorial self-invention, and the history of the literary canon. The chapters of this book go beyond the case study, however, and raise broad historical, cultural, and theoretical questions about the strange, marvelous, metamorphic thing we call the book, and the equally mul- tiplicitous, eccentric, and inscrutable beings who accompany them through history: readers and writers.

Contents:

Materialities. Reading habits and reading habitats; or, toward an ecobibliography of marginalia / Joshua Calhoun

Cut-and-paste bookmaking: the private/public agency of Robert Nicolson / Jason Scott-Warren

Book marks: object traces in early modern books / Adam Smyth

The occupation of the margins: writing, space, and early modern women / Katherine Acheson

Selves. Praying in the margins across the reformation: readers' marks in early Tudor books of hours / Elizabeth Patton

Articles of assent: clergymen's subscribed copies of the thirty-nine articles of the Church of England / Austen Saunders

Anne Clifford reads John Selden / Georgianna Ziegler

Marital marginalia: the seventeenth-century library of Thomas and Isabella Hervey / Emma Smith

Modes. Studied for redaction? reading and writing in the works of John Higgins / Harriet Archer

Vide supplementum: early modern collation as play-reading in the First Folio / Clare Bourne

Early modern marginalia and #earlymoderntwitter / Sjoerd Levelt

Afterword / Alan G. Stewart.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Early modern English marginalia

ISBN:

9780415418850

0415418852

OCLC:

1065546740

Publisher Number:

40028891514