Background
Heather J. Jackson was born on December 25, 1947.
Heather Jackson, educator, author.
27 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1, Canada
Heather Jackson earned a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Arts, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Toronto.
Heather Jackson is a member of the Modern Language Association.
Heather Jackson is a member of the Modern Language Association.
27 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1, Canada
Heather Jackson earned a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Arts, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Toronto.
(In this pioneering book - the first to examine the phenom...)
In this pioneering book - the first to examine the phenomenon of marginalia - H.J. Jackson surveys an extraordinary range of annotated books to explore the history of marginalia, the forms they take, the psychology that underlies them, and the reactions they provoke. Based on a study of thousands of books annotated by readers both famous and obscure over the last three centuries, this book reveals the intensity of emotion that characterizes the process of reading.
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2001
(This book explores reading practices in the Romantic Age ...)
This book explores reading practices in the Romantic Age through an analysis of some 2,000 books annotated by British readers between 1790 and 1830. This period experienced a great increase in readership and a boom in publishing. H. J. Jackson shows how readers used their books for work, for socializing, and for leaving messages to posterity. She draws on the annotations of Blake, Coleridge, Keats, and other celebrities as well as those of little known and unknown writers to discover how people were reading and what this can tell us about literature, social history, and the history of the book.
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2005
(This original book takes a fresh look at our beliefs abou...)
This original book takes a fresh look at our beliefs about literary fame by examining how it actually comes about. H. J. Jackson wrestles with entrenched notions about recognizing genius and the test of time by comparing the reputations of a dozen writers of the Romantic period - some famous, some forgotten.
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2015
Heather J. Jackson was born on December 25, 1947.
Heather Jackson earned a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Arts, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Toronto.
Heather Jackson works as a professor of English at the University of Toronto. Her teaching and research interests include Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies; Samuel Coleridge; Book History.
Heather Jackson's initial subject, Coleridge, was a prolific writer of marginalia; of a twelve-volume collection of his works, fully three are devoted to his extensive commentary in the margins of books. As one of the principal editors of these volumes, Jackson brought together his commentary on Kant and several other German scholars, German philosopher Immanuel Wordsworth's Prelude, a variety of literary journals, and the works of Shakespeare. In Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books, 1700-2000, Jackson expands her study to readers of Samuel Johnson, including his friends Boswell and Hester Thrale-Piozzi, the romantic poet John Keats' famous comments on Milton. T. H. White's notes on Karl Jung, Horace Walpole's copious marginal scribblings, and twentieth-century literary critic Northrop Frye's notes on John Bunyan and Marianne Moore. She also takes into account anonymous marginalia writers, whose notes range from detailed claims of ownership and requests for a book's safe return to personalized indexes to written conversations among friends sharing the book. Tracing these developments through time, Jackson argues, reveals the relationship between publishing and reading practices, as well as changes in the status and function of the author, to whom marginalia is often addressed. In addition, Jackson concludes her study by calling for greater respect for marginalia, including the preservation of handwritten annotations, larger margins in newly published books, and the sharing of books among friends, in order to expand the conversation in the margins beyond the reader and author.
Heather Jackson was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for her book Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books, 1700-2000, in 2001. She worked in the field of scholarly editing, producing several volumes of the minor and unpublished writings of the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(This book explores reading practices in the Romantic Age ...)
2005(This original book takes a fresh look at our beliefs abou...)
2015(In this pioneering book - the first to examine the phenom...)
2001
