Research Catalog

Title

Notes on footnotes : annotating eighteenth-century literature / edited by Melvyn New and Anthony W. Lee.

Publication

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]

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Details

Additional Authors

• New, Melvyn
• Lee, Anthony W.

Description

xiii, 252 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

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

Series Statement

The Penn State series in the history of the book

Uniform Title

Penn State series in the history of the book.

Alternative Title

Annotating 18th-century literature

Subject

• 1700-1799
• English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
• Bibliographical citations
• English literature

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Essays.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 23-1150

ISBN

• 9780271093970
• 0271093978

LCCN

2022037230

OCLC

1311360627

Title

Notes on footnotes : annotating eighteenth-century literature / edited by Melvyn New and Anthony W. Lee.

Publisher

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Penn State series in the history of the book

Penn State series in the history of the book.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1700-1799

Added Author

New, Melvyn, editor.

Lee, Anthony W., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1150