TY  - BOOK
AU  - Orgel,Stephen
TI  - The reader in the book: a study of spaces and traces 
T2  - Oxford textual perspectives
SN  - 9780198737568
U1  - 002.09 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Books
KW  - History
KW  - Marginalia
KW  - Books and reading
N1  - List of illustrations -- Reading in action -- Learning Latin -- Writing from the stage -- Spenser from the margins -- Scherzo: the insatiate countess and the Puritan revolution -- Reading with the Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery -- Coda: a note from the future -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - A study of the archaeology and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces. Marginalia constitute a significant dimension of the book's history, and what readers did to books often added to their value. This study deals with books in which the text and marginalia are in intense communication with each other, in which reading constitutes an active and sometimes adversarial engagement with the book. The underlying questions is at what point marginalia, the legible incorporation of the work of reading into the text of the book, became a way of defacing it rather than of increasing its value--why did we want books to lose their history?
ER  -