Notes on footnotes : annotating eighteenth-century literature /

"A collection of essays by scholars of eighteenth-century literature, sharing their experiences as both producers and users of explanatory annotations"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: New, Melvyn (Editor), Lee, Anthony W. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]
Series:Penn State series in the history of the book.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • "Many excellent good notes" : annotating John Aubrey's Brief lives / Kate Bennett
  • Annotating Dryden, Southerne, and Defoe / Maximillian E. Novak
  • Annotation in scholarly editions of plays : problems, options, and principles / Robert D. Hume
  • Annotating topical satire : the case of Swift / Stephen Karian
  • A picture is worth a thousand words : annotated facsimiles as ideal editions / Shef Rogers
  • Annotating Pope / Marcus Walsh
  • Uninformed readers and the crisis of annotation / Michael Edson
  • Footnote failure / Thomas Lockwood
  • The angry annotator annotated / Melvyn New
  • Annotating the Yale edition of the works of Samuel Johnson / Robert DeMaria Jr.
  • Annotating The rambler/The annotated rambler / Anthony W. Lee
  • Annotation and scholarly conversations : the musings of a non-editor annotator / Robert G. Walker
  • Annotation and editorial practice : twenty-five years (and counting) / Elizabeth Kraft
  • The rhetoric, ethics, and aesthetics of annotation : some reflections / William McCarthy.