1st Edition

Early Modern English Marginalia

Edited By Katherine Acheson Copyright 2019
318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Reading Habits and Reading Habitats; Or, Toward an Ecobibliography of Marginalia

Joshua Calhoun

2. Cut-and-Paste Bookmaking: The Private/Public Agency of Robert Nicolson

Jason Scott-Warren

3. Book Marks: Object Traces in Early Modern Books

Adam Smyth

4. The Occupation of the Margins: Writing, Space, and Early Modern Women

Katherine Acheson

5. Praying in the Margins across the Reformation: Readers’ Marks in Early Tudor Books of Hours

Elizabeth Patton

6. Articles of Assent: Clergymen's Subscribed Copies of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England

Austen Saunders

7. Anne Clifford Reads John Selden

Georgianna Ziegler

8. Marital Marginalia: The Seventeenth-Century Library of Thomas and Isabella Hervey

Emma Smith

9. Studied for Redaction? Reading and Writing in the Works of John Higgins

Harriet Archer

10. Vide Supplementum: Early Modern Collation as Play-Reading in the First Folio

Clare Bourne

11. Early Modern Marginalia and #earlymoderntwitter

Sjoerd Levelt

Afterword

Alan G. Stewart

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Katherine Acheson is a Professor of English Language and Literature and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo