H. J. Jackson, Author Yale University Press $21 (334p) ISBN 978-0-300-08816-8
It's difficult to imagine a scholarly enterprise easier to mock than a study of marginalia, the marks left behind by readers making their way through a text. Few readers pause to consider, let alone scrutinize, these bookish graffiti. Still, it is...
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H. J. Jackson, Author Yale University Press $39 (366p) ISBN 978-0-300-10785-2
Before there were television and movie screens to talk back to, people vented, pontificated and waxed poetic in the margins of their books, leaving heaps of material for Jackson, an English professor whose Marginalia was a general survey of this...
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H.J. Jackson. Yale Univ., $35 (312p) ISBN 978-0-300-17479-3
In this revelatory and delightful study, University of Toronto professor emerita Jackson (Romantic Readers: The Evidence of Marginalia) explores why a handful of authors from the Romantic period (Wordsworth, Austen, Keats, and Blake) achieved...
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