8 Footnote Failure

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 “Many Excellent Good Notes”: Annotating John Aubrey’s Brief Lives 10
6. 2 Annotating Dryden, Southerne, and Defoe 26
7. 3 Annotation in Scholarly Editions of Plays: Problems, Options, and Principles 41
8. 4 Annotating Topical Satire: The Case of Swift 61
9. 5 A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Annotated Facsimiles as Ideal Editions 73
10. 6 Annotating Pope 95
11. 7 Uninformed Readers and the Crisis of Annotation 112
12. 8 Footnote Failure 130
13. 9 The Angry Annotator Annotated 144
14. 10 Annotating the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson 160
15. 11 Annotating The Rambler / The Annotated Rambler 171
16. 12 Annotation and Scholarly Conversation: The Musings of a Non-Editor Annotator 185
17. 13 Annotation and Editorial Practice: Twenty-Five Years (and Counting) 203
18. 14 The Rhetoric, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Annotation: Some Reflections 219
19. List of Contributors 235
20. Index 239