Romantic Marginality: Nation and Empire on the Borders of the Page: The History of the Book

Chapter 1 Introduction: Reading from the Margins; Chapter 1a Contesting the Jupien Effect: Annotation in the Eighteenth Century; Chapter 2 The Author in the Margins: Annotation as Site of Conflict; Chapter 3 Margins and Marginality: Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (1800) and Sydney Owenson's the Wild Irish Girl (1806); Chapter 4 The Imperial Collection: Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer: A Metrical Romance (1801); Chapter 5 The Margins of the Nation: Robert Burns's Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786) and Walter Scott's Waverley (1814); Chapter 6 Byron's Errantry: Lord Byron and John Cam Hobhouse's Annotation for Cantos I, II and IV of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1811'”16); Chapter 7 Conclusion: Romantic Marginality and beyond;

Alex Watson is a principal lecturer at Performers College Brighton, BIMM University, UK. He researches and publishes work on contemporary British theatre, theatrical representations of violence, climate crisis theatre, site-specific theatre, and one-person plays. His monograph, Staging Systemic Violence: British Theatre 2010-2019 (2024) is published in the Methuen Engage series, as is a chapter in the edited collection Harold Pinter: Stages, Networks, Collaborations(2022, eds. Basil Chiasson and Catriona Fallow). Other publications include articles for Theatre Notebook(2022) and Contemporary Theatre Review (2022) as well as chapters for Contemporary Drama in English (2023), and The Routledge Companion to 20th-Century Theatre (forthcoming).

This is the first critical study of Romantic-era annotation or marginalia – footnotes, endnotes, glossaries – which formed a vital site of literary interaction.