The Author as Annotator

What literary and social functions do self-annotations (i.e. footnotes and endnotes that authors appended to their own works) serve? Focussing on Alexander Pope’s Dunciads and a wide selection of Lord Byron’s poems, Lahrsow shows that literary self-annotations rarely just explain a text. Rather, the...

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description What literary and social functions do self-annotations (i.e. footnotes and endnotes that authors appended to their own works) serve? Focussing on Alexander Pope’s Dunciads and a wide selection of Lord Byron’s poems, Lahrsow shows that literary self-annotations rarely just explain a text. Rather, they multiply meanings and pit different voices against each other. Self-annotations serve to ambiguate the author’s self-presentation as well as the genre, tone, and overall interpretation of a text. The study also examines how notes were employed for ‘social networking’ and how authors used self-annotations to address, and differentiate between, various groups of readerships. Additionally, the volume sheds light on the wider literary and cultural context of self-annotations: How common were they during the long eighteenth century? What conventions governed them? And were they even read? The study hence combines literary analysis with insights into book history and the history of reading.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1223192025-03-28T08:10:12Z The Author as Annotator Lahrsow, Miriam eighteenth century footnotes paratexts Romanticism self-commentary self-presentation The Dunciad What literary and social functions do self-annotations (i.e. footnotes and endnotes that authors appended to their own works) serve? Focussing on Alexander Pope’s Dunciads and a wide selection of Lord Byron’s poems, Lahrsow shows that literary self-annotations rarely just explain a text. Rather, they multiply meanings and pit different voices against each other. Self-annotations serve to ambiguate the author’s self-presentation as well as the genre, tone, and overall interpretation of a text. The study also examines how notes were employed for ‘social networking’ and how authors used self-annotations to address, and differentiate between, various groups of readerships. Additionally, the volume sheds light on the wider literary and cultural context of self-annotations: How common were they during the long eighteenth century? What conventions governed them? And were they even read? The study hence combines literary analysis with insights into book history and the history of reading. 2023-11-17T10:03:32Z 2023-11-17T10:03:32Z 2023-09-14T07:55:04Z 2022 book ONIX_20230914_9783657795284_17 OCN: 1396075730 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76326 9783657795284 9783506795281 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/122319 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76326/1/9783657795284.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76326/1/9783657795284.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76326/1/9783657795284.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76326/1/9783657795284.pdf Brill Schöningh 10.30965/9783657795284 10.30965/9783657795284 33fecb33-e7c4-4fc8-96b0-7ba2fccafba9 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 3358520f-7ab2-42ab-80ef-88a2dbe6a901 9783657795284 9783506795281 DFG - German Research Foundation Schöningh 198647426 open access
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